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The Real Health Podcast: Simple and easy guided meditation with Today FM’s Dermot Whelan

In 2007 Dermot Whelan, arrived at a comedy festival in an ambulance after having a panic attack en route. Realising this was not a sustainable way to travel to future gigs, he decided to become a meditation teacher and learn how to de-stress without annoying the emergency services. ack then Dermot felt awful. He was… Read More »

Two contract COVID in WA hotel quarantine

Two returned travellers have contracted COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in Perth, sparking an investigation into the source of the infections. The WA Health Department had previously reported the infections as being acquired overseas. But genome sequencing has since confirmed transmission occurred at the Mercure Hotel Perth. “The virus was transmitted in hotel quarantine at the… Read More »

NIH ‘very concerned’ about serious side effect in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial

“The highest levels of NIH are very concerned,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, intramural clinical director and a leader of viral research at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an NIH division. “Everyone’s hopes are on a vaccine, and if you have a major complication the whole thing could get derailed.” A great deal… Read More »