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Make sure the water from your tap is safe to drink

With an increasing risk of water-borne diseases such as cholera spreading in cities, it is important to learn how to keep your family safe.

22 March 2024

Are you sitting too long in your office job?

Office workers are sedentary for hours at a time. Our research looked at what they should do to stay healthy.

22 March 2024

Urgent TB vaccine trial kicks off in SA

Professor Lee Fairlie from the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) is a Co-National Principal Investigator of the trial.

22 March 2024

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The future of medicine

Imagine a world where medicines can be guided to the exact place that they are needed in the body - a world closer than you think.

Your drug questions answered

From alcohol to cocaine, caffeine to cough syrup, Wits experts shed light on legal and not-so-legal drugs of choice.




Cheers to SA's most pervasive drug

Alcohol is so ubiquitous and its marketing so pernicious that there's a tendency to underestimate its impact on public health. So, why do we drink?

Turning green grass into gold

Academia can help show how the cannabis industry can be a thriving sector in the country.





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