Hayley Gleeson

this is such a lovely reflection, from jane goodall, on hope. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences.

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

A year on from Muriel Furrer’s death, is cycling’s attitude to safety shifting? A sport that witnesses death too often needs change. There is no shortage of ideas but right now there is a lack of consensus

[Jonas] Vingegaard crashed at Paris-Nice. He did not compete for the next two months after suffering a #concussion, criticising the race doctors for not providing a head injury assessment after he fell, and allowing him to complete the remaining 84km of the stage.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

Research shows exactly how entire families adjust when a partner is sick.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/when-a-...

How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over

“the path china has traveled can offer lessons for americans about how freedom is lost and the resulting cost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

The death rays that guard life - Works in Progress Magazine We disinfect water before we drink it. Why don’t we disinfect the air before we breathe it?

“twentieth-century water treatment programs transformed public health by virtually eliminating waterborne diseases. ventilation, filtration and disinfection provide us with the opportunity to dramatically reduce the burden of airborne illnesses.” worksinprogress.co/issue/the-de...

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

this gorgeous piece on @newyorker.com fact checking is full of gold. “when a talk piece by tad friend described the singer art garfunkel waving his arms around, the checker asked garfunkel to confirm that he had two arms.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value

“of course it struggled to be viable – it’s a literary magazine. almost no literary magazines around the world are financially viable; that’s not their purpose. the point is their cultural value, the role they serve as a platform for ideas and creativity…” www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

fascinating, exciting research exploring how maraviroc, an hiv drug, could boost neuroplasticity after brain injury and improve recovery www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/s...

Inside the CDC director's ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director

Special Report
Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

20 Killed in Gaza Hospital Strikes. Netanyahu Cites ‘Tragic Mishap.’

“the war in gaza that began nearly two years ago has been one of the deadliest conflicts anywhere for journalists, with at least 192 killed since it began” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

My summer in Norway left me sad to be Australian In the month I spend there, I learn that Norway is a country where the perks of clever policy abound. But it’s who pays for these perks that is so exasperating.

“sitting at my brother’s kitchen table, i wonder why we have let a handful of mining companies worth billions of dollars take all our money.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

“embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is. that could lead to a cascade of expensive changes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

For too many victims of family violence, police harm more than help 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.

For too many victims of family violence, police harm more than help: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-07/police-family-violence-harm-in-the-name-of-safety-victims/105454054

Domestic violence and a vicious shooting left Rawson with PTSD and a choice For years Rawson Kirkhope tried to outrun his trauma, self-medicating with booze, soaking in the toxic cultures of football and the navy. Now he's turning a struggle he was ashamed of into a recovery ...

i'm very grateful to rawson for generously sharing his experience of domestic violence growing up - the harm it did to him and his family and why he's chosen to speak openly about his recovery. stories of abuse and violent crime generally aren't uplifting - this one is www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

A love letter to the ocean, calling for climate action for our health and wellbeing

A love letter to the ocean, calling for climate action for our health and wellbeing www.croakey.org/a-love-lette... #publichealth

Science just got sidelined. This isn’t about vaccine safety or restoring confidence —it’s about political agendas endangering public health. We should all be alarmed.

SBS’s Insight accused of betraying people living with chronic fatigue syndrome who appeared on program Broadcaster receives hundreds of negative comments including claims it presented a potentially harmful and unscientific narrative

Glad this has been called out, lame response from SBS claiming 'balance and impartial coverage'. Giving airtime to scientifically flawed, non evidence based narratives is not balance or impartial. It is harmful, unethical and disrespectful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Writer Sarah Barness was 35 and had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. The warnings came immediately, fast and often: ‘Beware the cancer ghosts.’ After cancer, she would find out who her real friends were because some would step up and others would step back. They would be her “cancer ghosts.”

What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

“we have been trying to stop violent offenders without understanding what goes on in the mind of the violent offender”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Reports - Performance of the Victorian integrity agencies 2022/23 - Parliament of Victoria

a new report by victoria's integrity and oversight committee examines the oversight responses to police perpetrated family violence, finding improvements must be made to how such matters are dealt with, especially by victoria police and IBAC www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances Information on serum levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for people aged 12 years and over

new ABS data on PFAS levels
- three types of PFAS were detected in the blood of over 85 per cent of the population
- six types were detected in less than 10 per cent of people
- the remaining 2 types of PFAS had detection rates between 15 per cent and 45 per cent
www.abs.gov.au/articles/per...

A New System Aims to Save Injured Brains and Lives

doctors are proposing a new system for categorising TBIs that uses blood biomarkers and scans, not just the “cartoonish” glasgow coma scale. “we all grew up with the categories, ‘mild, moderate, severe’,” dr mccrea said. “we can do better than that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/h...

Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour - ABC listen Jamila’s craniopharyngioma had been growing for years, unbeknownst to her. In hindsight, it was her son who gave the first clue, when he stopped breastfeeding overnight at 11 months old. Today Jamila...

what an incredible conversation - richard fidler and jamila rizvi, who is admirably, generously open about her experience of 'invisible' illness, how her life has changed since she was diagnosed with a recurring brain tumour www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A new unit targeted abusive cops. Three years on, victims feel betrayed 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.

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.

A new unit targeted abusive cops. Three years on, victims feel betrayed 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 gatherin...

“australian politicians need to stop making excuses for our substandard police complaints and disciplinary systems that constantly fail many thousands of people every year.”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

ACIPC’s recommendations call for:
• PFR mask use in the management of all pathogens that are transmitted via airborne/inhalation
means
• revision of national IPC guidelines
• enhance training and fit festing of PFR masks
• improve ventilation and infection control measures

"ACIPC asserts that PFR masks and eye protection should be the standard PPE in all healthcare settings where airborne/inhalation transmission is a risk, not just during AGPs or with patients/individuals with COVID-19," ACIPC president a/prof stéphane bouchoucha said.

PFR masks in COVID-19 management - ACIPC - Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control ACIPC is calling for the consistent use of PFR masks over surgical masks in healthcare environments with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.   In its latest Position Statement, The use of particulate fil...

the ACIPC says australia's IPC guidelines underestimate the risk of airborne transmission in healthcare settings, argues surgical masks = insufficient protection against COVID and recommends N95 respirators should be standard wherever airborne transmission is a risk www.acipc.org.au/position-sta...