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Campus Health Services’ Physiotherapy Practice decided to use February, known as the month of love, to inspire staff members and students at Stellenbosch University to love their bodies and to look after them. The physiotherapists came up with the theme “Love your body” and aim to publish articles that address the theme. Two articles “Love [...]

Campus Health Services Sports and Exercise Medicine offers many services to athletes, recreational athletes, health conscious individuals, those who exercise just for fitness or for fun or those who would like to start exercising. The unit is accredited with the South African Sports Medicine Association and Sports Concussion South Africa. They offer the Maties injury [...]

Come for a free HIV, Cholesterol and Glucose tests at Campus Health Service on Thursday 27 September 2012, between 08:30 and 15:00. Contact their reception at 021 808 3496 for more information.

During Back Injury Awareness Week from 3-10 September the focus will fall on back injuries and how to prevent them. Here are ways to reduce the risk: Back injuries have many causes and work-related, sports-related and day-to-day activities all carry a risk. Although 60-85% of adults will experience back pain in their lives, there are a number of [...]

 “With the launch of this website Campus Health Service (CHS) reaches another milestone in an impressive history of excellent service, until relatively recently predominantly to students, and now to the campus community as a whole”, Prof Julian Smith, Vice-Rector (Community Interaction & Personnel) said about the new website of CHS. “As a result of the establishment over time [...]

Due to the extreme shortage of Flu vaccine available to the general public Campus Health Service will be following the Immunization recommendations as set out by the National Advisory Group on Immunization (NAGI) for South Africa for 2010. We strongly urge the following groups, in order of priority, to report to Campus Health Service for [...]

“It would appear that cases of measles infections have increased in the Western Cape recently, particularly in the areas surrounding the Cape metropole. This means that staff and students are exposed to such infections and, given the infectious nature of measles, it impacts on class attendance, tests and the daily work programmes of the campus [...]

The capacity of Campus Health Services (CHS) on the Stellenbosch campus has been boosted by the arrival of a mobile unit supplied by the provincial Department of Health to Stellenbosch University. The role of the experienced nursing practitioner in the unit is not to perform H1N1 testing, but to assist the four doctors and four [...]

Ruan Muller (22), a Stellenbosch University student in polymer science has become the first fatality in the Western Cape and in South Africa related to the current Novel Influenza A/H1N1 illness. He had a two-week history of illness and was treated by general practitioners before being admitted to hospital with pneumonia. He died of atypical [...]