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need sleep of some kind, and if evolution has retained a behavior across many species, it must be important.After all, lying unconscious for hours does not seem like the safest activity for an animal in the wild. So whatever goes on during sleep is vital.“Those little slices of death,” as Edgar Allen Poe referred to…

Doctors have asked medical aid schemes for financial assistance as the grapple with Covid-19. The Health Funders Association has questioned the benefit of doctors' request for medical aids and their members.Doctors are grappling with the impact of Covid-19 as they see fewer patients.The Health Funders Association has asked for clarity on how the mechanism to…

A healthcare worker wears PPEs. Binnur Ege Gurun Kocak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Im The latest weekly mortality report finds an estimated 17 090 excess deaths occurred from natural causes between 6 May and 14 July.Not all of these excess deaths are attributed to Covid-19 – but could be related to the outbreak.The weekly death reports…

JAMA published a meta-analysis that combed through the findings of 23 experiments across 16 scientific papers.The authors only included studies that had used a placebo and were blinded, which means that the children, parents, and teachers involved did not know who had received the sugar and who had been given the placebo.After analyzing the data,…

Weekly deaths from all causes. The SA Medical Research Council has recorded an excess of almost 11 000 deaths between 6 May and 7 July.This means there were almost 11 000 more deaths than predictions suggested based on historical data. It is still unclear how many of these deaths can be attributed to Covid-19 or the…