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03 September 2021 | Story Burneline Kaars
The University of the Free State invites students and staff to a webinar titled, ‘The COVID vaccine and YOU’. Dr Samantha Potgieter, infectious disease expert at the Universitas Academic Hospital and affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine, will answer questions from staff about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it affects them. The webinar will address questions such as the following: 

• what vaccination is and how it works
• how vaccines are developed and how we know they are safe and effective
• how the COVID-19 vaccine works and how it can protect you
• the side effects of the vaccine 
• the risks vs benefits of the vaccine.

You can also forward questions prior to the webinar to grimbeekl@ufs.ac.za
Date: Friday 10 September 2021
Time: 11:00-12:00

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Well-known sports people present cycling seminar at Kovsies
2007-05-11

The Sport Medicine Clinic at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented a cycling seminar on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein this week. The presenters, Mr Nick Bester, former Iron Man champion, Ms Hannele Steyn-Kotzé, Springbok in among others cycling and road cycling races, Dr Louis Holtzhausen, Director of Kovsie Health, gave an overview of the sport and focused on the technical aspects of cycling and the bicycle, conditioning (including exercise programmes and dietary recommendations) and injuries and forbidden drugs. At the seminar were, from the left: Dr Holtzhausen, Ms Steyn-Kotzé, Mr Bester and Dr Rudi de Wet from Molteno, a masters degree student in Sport Medicine at the UFS.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

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