A study by Wits scientists and peers has revealed that South Africa has the highest prevalence of hypertension in southern Africa.
Jun 16, 2017
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Scientists have discovered the genetic mutation that causes the rare skin disease, keratolytic winter erythema (KWE), or 'Oudtshoorn skin', in Afrikaners.
May 5, 2017
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A new malaria vector discovered in South Africa is not linked to the 'Odyssean' malaria cases reported in two provinces this week.
Mar 13, 2017
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Tuberculosis (TB) affects some 35-million people globally. In 2009 testing for TB using molecular diagnostics proved a game-changer for national TB programmes.
Jan 25, 2017
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Dr Nicole De Wet is a lecturer in demography and population studies at Wits. Her research is on adolescent health outcomes in South Africa.
Jan 23, 2017
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A Public Health research unit at Wits University is leading a study that enables young women in rural South Africa to test themselves for HIV.
Nov 30, 2016
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A network of health and demographic surveillance sites will enable understanding of how poverty, inequality and unemployment impacts rural South Africans.
Oct 19, 2016
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A Zambian surgeon has driven the adoption of a World Health Organization resolution to make surgery accessible as a component of universal health coverage.
Sep 21, 2016
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When one thinks about chronic conditions that are commonly painful, HIV doesn't typically spring to mind. However, more than 50% of HIV-positive individuals experience a painful condition like headache, chest pain or neuropathy, ...
Sep 13, 2016
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A recent study published in the Pediatric Obesity journal suggests that young girls who are either overweight or obese during childhood were more likely to remain obese as they progressed into young adulthood compared to ...
Dec 10, 2015
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