Hayley Gleeson

Police responses to family violence are too often harming not helping victims, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness, new research has found.

Three years after Victoria Police stood up a new unit to investigate family violence by serving officers, women say they've faced shocking treatment and even criminal charges themselves after gathering the courage to report abuse.

COVID jabs were a resounding success but vaccines now face a growing threat

What about the people who change their career not to scratch some creative or philanthropic itch or make a truckload of money, but out of necessity — because illness or injury derailed or destroyed their ability to work?

A restless period of cancer treatment gave Jess Hill the clarity and courage to finally voice her ideas about why Australia's National Plan for Ending Gender Based Violence is failing.

Long COVID is snuffing out some patients' dreams of having children, and complicating pregnancy and parenthood for those who choose to conceive despite their symptoms and doubts about when or if they will recover.

Thousands of patients caught COVID in NSW public hospitals last year and hundreds died, fuelling concerns among infection control experts that hospitals are not taking strong enough precautions against airborne viruses.

A free online course aims to bust COVID misinformation and teach people how to stop the virus spreading in schools. But perhaps its greatest challenge is engaging people in the first place — particularly those who believe COVID is harmless.

The Pathway to Clean Indoor Air in Victoria could speed up the end of the current pandemic and help us prepare for the next one. But improving indoor air quality won't just bring health benefits — it could also boost businesses' bottom lines.

Two women who endured decades of intimate partner violence have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy — the first cases of CTE in victims of domestic violence in Australia and two of just a handful globally.

They’re losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and invisible.

Thousands of patients caught COVID in Victorian public hospitals in the past two years and hundreds died, fuelling concerns that health services aren't taking strong enough precautions against airborne viruses.

For years concussion patients in Australia have struggled to find or afford the care they need to recover. Now Victoria's first public concussion clinic for adults is aiming to fill the gap — and clinicians are already shocked by what they're seeing.

The shocking murder of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies should be a wake-up call to police forces across the country that for too long have been failing to take action against serving officers who commit domestic violence.

Hospitals have become a strange new battleground in the fight against COVID, with doctors and public health experts concerned that too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number are dying — as a result of inadequate infection control.

Three of Australia’s leading COVID-19 experts share their personal safety strategies and reflect on what must happen if we’re to blunt the growing health crisis the pandemic is causing — and prepare for the next one.

Long COVID is not just destroying people’s health. Behind closed doors, in homes across Australia and abroad, it is irreversibly changing relationships — sometimes for the better, too often for worse.

Bianca went to Hobart Police Station to report she’d been assaulted, assuming officers would protect her. Instead, they took out a family violence order against her — but perhaps she shouldn’t have been so surprised.

Athletes who sustain concussions are usually quickly pulled from play and have teams of medical professionals overseeing their recoveries. Why aren’t victims of domestic violence with brain injuries getting the same care and attention?

If pathologists start looking for CTE in the brains of domestic violence victims, will they find it? And what will it mean if they do?