Researchers have found Melbourne’s pollen season is starting earlier and giong for longer,which could mean more days per year when thunderstorm asthma consitions arise.

Melbourne is the thunderstorm asthma capital of the world. And the pollen season is getting longer

Melbourne is also the allergy capital of the world,and a longer pollen season will exacerbate it.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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Laura is a victim of financial abuse.

‘I did it to put you in jail’:Tax system is ‘weaponised’ to harm partners,ombudsman finds

Victims often became aware they owed significant amounts only when they received penalty notices,and they usually had to pay the debts.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Financial advisor Julie Dal Pra sectured pro bono help from 78 people to free Christine (in background) from her ex-husband’s fraudulent directorships,loans and tax debt in her name totalling $9.5 million.

Julie discovered an abuse victim’s ex had left the woman saddled with $12m in debt

It took 77 people working for free,and three years’ full-time work,to save a stay-at-home mother from a mountain of fraudulent business debts created by her ex-husband.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Maddison Dass and her daughter Juliette.

Postcode lottery means some mothers – and their babies – are more likely to be overweight or obese

Moving from Melbourne’s north to the west brought home to Maddison Dass what researchers have just revealed – there is not equal opportunity for health in Melbourne.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Isla Bell’s mother,Justine Spokes,and uncle,Keiran Dionysis both spoke at the She Matters rally in Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens.

‘It’s a widespread,toxic culture’:Isla Bell’s mother calls for justice

The family of the 19-year-old Brunswick woman who was allegedly murdered have called for media reporting on victims to be more sensitive to the impact on loved ones.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Shifra Bendet,with dogs Bruno,Ollie and Piper,says freezing her eggs around eight years ago took the pressure off making choices around her fertility.

Shifra’s frozen eggs will reach a legal expiry date. What happens to them when time runs out?

Many early adopters of egg freezing are not well-informed about the emotional and psychological realities of disposing of unused eggs when their deadline is up.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Once Jessie and her partner were both treated for the bacteria that causes BV,Jessie no longer kept experiencing the infection’s return.

This common infection can cause female infertility. It turns out men are ‘the missing link’ in transmission

One in three women experience bacterial vaginosis,but a breakthrough Australian study has found that treating male sexual partners significantly reduces the chance of a recurrence.

  • Wendy Tuohy

Men reckon they do their fair share of housework. Their female partners don’t agree

Women are carrying more of the housework burden than their male partners,especially when they have children.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Jessica Birch

‘My mum consumed alcohol before she knew she was pregnant – the damage was done’

Even low amounts of alcohol exposure to developing babies produces changes to their faces that persist into childhood and were detectable with imaging,research has found.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Aimee Welton believed at age 35 that she had eggs enough to spare to give some to a friend struggling with fertility,only to discover she would need donor eggs herself,

A donor egg helped Aimee become a mum. A rule change will make it easier for others

The growing number of women choosing to start families alone has led to wait times on donor eggs and sperm rising,but Victoria has moved to make importing them easier.

  • Wendy Tuohy