Fibromyalgia (FM) and perimenopause/menopause share common clinical symptoms, with FM symptoms often beginning during menopause transition. Arthralgia/myalgia, fatigue, sleep difficulties, brain fog - problems with memory/concentration, headaches are seen in both situations.

New website from🇬🇧#Epilepsy & #Pregnancy #Register🚀epilepsyandpregnancy.co.uk 🌍Now enrolling #pregnant #women with epilepsy to study their children's health & development. Proud to be part of this incredible team to better understand & support women & families - today & for the

Dr. Michelle Morse (Dr. Michelle E. Morse), chief medical officer at the NYC Department of Health (nychealthy), questions the validity of race-based variables in medical studies and their impact on chronic kidney disease outcomes. Learn more: nej.md/itt-ep34 #HealthEquity

Live rotavirus vaccine can be given to infants exposed to anti-TNF in utero. Will be in the Global Consensus guidelines. Great work by Cynthia Seow and colleagues! LIVE ROTAVIRUS VACCINATION APPEARS LOW-RISK IN INFANTS BORN TO MOTHERS... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great to have worked on this with Melanie Nana, Maria Gregori, Mandish Dhanjal, Cathy Nelson-Piercy & others for The Lancet Rheumatology. Late pregnancy anti-IL6R exposures for severe COVID-19 - maternal and neonatal outcomes. 🤰🦠💉 thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…

Heterozygous microdeletion of the X chromosome, including FOXP3, with skewed X chromosome inactivation in a female patient with recurrent fever, infection, features of autoimmunity and Treg dysfunction. nature.com/articles/s4159…

MOMSLondon2024 - it is fast approaching! A 🧵with exciting news about speakers. 📜the programme is now online 🐦early bird discount ends 1.9.24 ⌨️abstract deadline 1.9.24 6th Dec 2024 Royal College of Physicians Dinner in the Dorchester Library, RCP 5th Dec 2024 (tickets going fast) 1/4

Read our August editorial on navigating the complexities of #pregnancy in #rheumatic disease thelancet.com/journals/lanrh… Plus check out the Series on pregnancy, ICYMI thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…

Excellent SAM Podcast with ℙ𝕒𝕒𝕣𝕦𝕝 ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕛𝕒 - chock-a-block with tips and learning points on looking after pregnant people as a medical registrar. 🤰

‼️ Researchers at UCL are studying how Muslim patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases, including #lupus, manage medications during #Ramadan. 🙏 Please take this quick 10-minute survey and  share it in your networks 🌍. Your help is key! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_23…

YESSSSS! 🚨 next webinar coming up! 🚨 ⏲️1930-2100 📅18th Sept 2024 🖊️Critical care in pregnancy All welcome, please share with friends and colleagues! Link to register below.

New! 📣Best Practice Guidelines for the management of Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) aka Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS) from Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) BSR Remember the 3Fs Fever, Falling Counts, Ferritin and follow the HLH pathway to guide management

👉 Research study about family history and rheumatic diseases just came out: acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… If you have a family history of each of the following, you have a _____ X increased risk for that same problem: #SLE #lupus = 6 times increased risk of also getting SLE compared

ENTIS and OTIS comment on the precautionary regulatory measures for paternal valproate use. Read more here entis-org.eu/news/entis-and…

A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart. 🖊️ Phil Whitaker newstatesman.com/long-reads/202…

Perspective: Mpox in Pregnancy — Risks, Vertical Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment nej.md/3T7oF75

Great looking schedule for this study day on Friday - 👏 to the organisers!

New content online! Is X chromosome inactivation a cause or effect of SLE? dlvr.it/TCkZnq

New paper out nature - why are males more vulnerable to severe infections (ex acute #COVID), while females suffer more from autoimmunity (SLE, MS etc and also #LongCovid)? sex chromosomes or hormones? Here we studied adaptation of human immune systems to gender-affirming

Great to see sex-specific risk modifiers & autoimmune inflammatory diseases being acknowledged for their CVD risk in the latest European Society of Cardiology hypertension guideline out recently.