Hayley Gleeson

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?