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When Rob Gibbs started volunteering as a firefighter at the CFA, he was strong both physically and mentally, but 21 years later he’s sitting on the couch at his Cowwarr home feeling like a burden to his family. Key points: Rob Gibbs was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2016 He fought the fire for 15 years and urged firefighters to have regular blood tests The World Health Organization says firefighting is a cancer-causing profession Mr Gibbs, 52, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2016, had one of his legs amputated, and has spent about three of the last five years in hospital. “It’s hard with everything going on with my body. Sometimes you think, why bother?” he says. “If it weren’t for my wife and daughter, I might have left a while ago in all honesty.” Importance of PPE Mr Gibbs has been fighting fires in Gippsland and in metropolitan Melbourne for 15 years and is now encouraging working firefighters to protect themselves by testing their blood regularly and w

While the old COVID-19, also known as the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), is a rapidly emerging health crisis across the US and abroad, there is no practical medical definition for it — and it may not be the case. the bad ones, say experts. There are overarching definitions for long-term COVID, such as that from the CDC, which states that long-term COVID-19 is first identifiable “at least four weeks after infection,” and WHO, which says that it occurs “usually within three months of the onset of COVID-19, with symptoms and effects that last for at least two months.” The medical community has taken a more clinical swing in defining the term COVID in an effort to improve patient care. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has listed 50 different symptoms that may be associated with prolonged COVID-19. Scrolling through patient-driven forums, such as a Reddit channel called r/covidlonghaulers, reveals a wider list of symptoms. However, researchers and do

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This is the last race. Eight athletes lined the track, their feet tensed against the starting blocks. They hear a countdown: “On Your Marks!”, “Get Set,” and then, a split second before the shot, a runner jumps forward, disqualifying himself from the competition. It is at such times that an aspect of behavior that is usually neglected—action suppression—is painfully exposed. A study published today in the journal Natural uncover how the brain stops us from jumping the gun. “We found an area of ​​the brain that is responsible for prompting action and another for suppressing that impulse. We can also trigger impulsive behavior by manipulating the neurons in these areas,” said the study’s senior author, Joe Paton, Program Director of Champalimaud Neuroscience in Portugal. Solve puzzles Paton’s team set out to solve a puzzle that arose in part from Parkinson’s and H