Hayley Gleeson - ABC News (original) (raw)

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.
Topic:COVID-19Sat 28 DecSat 28 Dec 2024 at 6:00pm
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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.
Topic:COVID-19Tue 15 OctTue 15 Oct 2024 at 4:11am
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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.
Topic:COVID-19Tue 24 SepTue 24 Sep 2024 at 11:26pm
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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.
Topic:HealthTue 30 JulTue 30 Jul 2024 at 7:00pm
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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.
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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.
Topic:COVID-19Thu 11 JulThu 11 Jul 2024 at 4:17am
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Topic:COVID-19Sat 10 FebSat 10 Feb 2024 at 6:00pm
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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.
Topic:COVID-19Tue 23 JanTue 23 Jan 2024 at 6:35am
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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.
Topic:COVID-19Tue 26 DecTue 26 Dec 2023 at 6:00pm
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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.
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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?
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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?
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The next frontier of Australia's concussion crisis isn't on the football field, but in homes across the country, where victims of domestic violence are sustaining brain injuries at staggering rates.
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Tasmania Police's power to issue final family violence orders is exacerbating the problem of victim misidentification, experts say, making it difficult to correct cases where officers have made the wrong call and upending the lives of potentially hundreds of women every year.
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For up to 30 per cent of people who sustain a concussion, symptoms persist for months or years, with devastating consequences. However, experts say too many Australians are suffering in silence, unable to find or pay for the care they need.
Topic:HeadacheMon 24 OctMon 24 Oct 2022 at 7:55pm
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For a significant minority of people who sustain a concussion, symptoms persist for months or years — dimming sparks, derailing careers, pushing relationships and mental health into danger zones.
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New figures revealing a "concerning increase" in Queensland police officers accused of domestic violence likely underestimate the true scale of the problem, advocates say, because most victims aren't reporting.
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More people than ever are being imprisoned for breaching family violence orders in Victoria as police have become increasingly responsive to the state's scourge of abuse, recording a fivefold increase in the number of breach offences in the decade to 2020.
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A victim of domestic violence says NSW Police must urgently overhaul the way it deals with perpetrators in its ranks and fix glaring "cultural problems" that left her feeling like she was up against an "army" in the force even after her ex was charged.
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Several NSW police officers who recently committed serious domestic violence offences have kept their jobs, shocking victim advocates and raising questions about the force's commitment to addressing the scourge of abuse in police ranks and the broader community.
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Mounting evidence suggests police are mistaking domestic violence victims as perpetrators at staggering rates, derailing the lives of potentially thousands of women around the country every year. Why are they still getting it so wrong?
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Victoria Police still has "a long way to go" in its mission to hold abusers in its ranks to account, police accountability experts say, as new data reveals a senior constable who was recently convicted of several family violence offences remains employed as a frontline officer.
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