Remarkable impact: there were no reported cases of #cervicalcancer among women in Scotland who received the #HPV vaccine at the age of 12–13 in the 12 years following vaccination. Here’s a look at studies from around the world that show that #VaccinesWork to #StopCervicalCancer: bit.ly/489S33A

Great Society of Acute Medicine podcast on HLH with Dr Jessica Manson. Pragmatic, clinically relevant introduction to the disease, and a nod to pregnancy induced HLH too open.spotify.com/episode/3dpf...

A systematic review of disseminated HSV in pregnancy (including with HLH) - out now. Highlights non-specific symptoms of the disease in pregnancy & how an absence of lesions does not exclude HSV in the unwell, febrile pregnant patient. #sepsis #HSV #HLH obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now published: The 2025 ACR Guideline for the Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 📄 Read the paper: acr.tw/47mkegj ℹ️ See additional content and resources on this guideline at acr.tw/4mbHK4W #Medsky #Rheumsky #Rheumatology

Great news! Excited to announce the date and location of ISOM/MOMS2026. QEII centre, London, UK 7-8th December 2026 Save the date! Share with friends! Plan your trip! #ISOMMOMS2026

Join us on October 29 for our upcoming webinar, “The Burning Question of Acetaminophen in Pregnancy.” Open to both members and non-members — everyone is welcome! 🔗 Register here: sinaihealth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happy World Menopause Day. Reminder that as well as the impact of menopause on physical and mental wellbeing. Menopause also seems to be an immune-ageing event www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

I am very grateful to my funders the @vivensa.bsky.social and @bartscharity.bsky.social for funding this research through seed awards. More research is desperately needed to understand the impact of menopause on immunity and I hope more funders consider this as an important research area. #immunosky

This study was an amazing Early Career researcher effort with Roel de Maeyer performing the functional monocyte assays, @oliviabracken.bsky.social performing the bioinformatic analysis, and my lovely lab member Justyna performing the Menopause analysis. I am very grateful for all their hard work.

Importantly the use of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in menopausal females kept their monocytes looking ‘young’ and they had improved phagocytosis as compared to age matched controls. Highlighting the potential immune benefits of HRT.

In this paper we demonstrate that there is an increase in inflammatory monocytes with altered proteome in post-menopausal females, which is not observed with age in males. Phagocytosis is significantly decreased in post-menopausal as compared to pre-menopausal females.

I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌟 New MOMS Webinar Series! 🌟 Breathe and Think: Neuro & Respiratory insights for Midwives 📅 30th Sept 2025 🕡 6:30–8:00 pm (BST) 👉 Free to attend & available for 4 weeks after via obstetricmedic.org.uk 🔗 Register via QR code on poster! #Midwifery #ObstetricMedicine #Neuro #Respiratory #MOMS

💊 Paracetamol remains the drug of choice for pain and fever in pregnancy. Read the joint statement from UKTIS, BMFMS and MOMS 🤰Clinical guidelines remain unchanged: maternal pain and fever should be treated appropriately. uktis.org/wp-content/u...

📢 Can I have a baby? 📢 Join on 16th Oct 2025, 7.30–9.00pm (UK time) to discuss: 👶 Fertility preservation 🧬 Preimplantation genetic testing 🤰 Surrogacy Free to attend & available on-demand for 4 weeks! Register 👉 www.obstetricmedic.org.uk #Fertility #ObstetricMedicine #ReproductiveHealth

Fertility clinics must end unproven treatments that don't help couples have babies www.nice.org.uk/news/article...

Great not only to have the work we're doing on HLH included in today's conference for the release of the #MBRRACEUK report on UK maternal mortality, but to also see another presentation on this topic. Is HLH as rare as we think, or simply rarely diagnosed?

The first new UK-wide long-term scientific study of babies and child development in a quarter of a century will be led at UCL's @clscohorts.bsky.social by Profs Alisa Goodman, @drlisac.bsky.social and Pasco Fearon @uclpals.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @news.ukri.org www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

⏰Final push - UK rheum doctors/nurses/physios/AHPs pleeeease take 5 minutes to complete this. I would particularly welcome thoughts from those practicing in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland who are currently under-represented in the respondents! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

📝 Like Wordle but wish it involved plagues? It's not quite the same -- there's no spelling just a series of clues in a similar feedback loop as Wordle -- but it's pretty cool! Complements of an anonymous med student on Reddit. #IDSky #MedSky www.plagdle.com

✨We’ve just launched our new guide to #vaccinations during #pregnancy! Understand how immunity changes, which vaccines the NHS recommends, and how they protect both parent and baby during pregnancy and beyond. Download a copy for trusted information: bit.ly/4fuRqVw

**Rheumatology doctors/nurses/physios in the UK** This is a short survey to map current reproductive health support/advice available across rheum services in the UK. Please fill it in & share within your networks to help guide next steps/guidelines 📑 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

New systematic review of pregnancy associated HLH - 104 pregnancies - commonest cause infections (EBV, CMV, HSV, parvo) - followed by SLE, stills, lymphoma - 4/14 tested has positive genetics - 40% no known cause onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/6

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Very proud to be associated with this much needed guidance that will help reduce inequalities in care for women with cancer in pregnancy @melanienana1.bsky.social @bethangoulden.bsky.social @berniejenner.bsky.social

New systematic review of pregnancy associated HLH - 104 pregnancies - commonest cause infections (EBV, CMV, HSV, parvo) - followed by SLE, stills, lymphoma - 4/14 tested has positive genetics - 40% no known cause onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/6

**Rheumatology doctors/nurses/physios in the UK** This is a short survey to map current reproductive health support/advice available across rheum services in the UK. Please fill it in & share within your networks to help guide next steps/guidelines 📑 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Great to see that UKTIS now have a monograph on JAK inhibitor use in pregnancy - sign up for an account to read the full piece, and encourage your patients to sign up to the MyBUMPS portal to collect more data on medication exposures in pregnancy uktis.org/monographs/u...

🤩 New @eular.org webinar! Join us for PAED X PARE: a unique dialogue on reproductive healthcare in childhood & juvenile onset RMDs. 🗓️ Nov 5 | 16:30–17:30 CET 📍 Teams 🔗 esor.eular.org/enrol/index.... #lupus #pedsrheum #pregnancy #RMD #rheumatology #PARE

French Teratology Service study of 57 pregnant women exposed to anti-IL-1 (47% for Stills Dz) found no evidence of adverse pregnancy outcomes with IL-1 inhibition (43 anakinra, 5 canakinumab) 85% livebirths, 11% early miscarriages. Major congenital malformations 3% academic.oup.com/rheumatology...

Assessing risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among women with SSc in the Swedish Medical Birth Register showed increased risk of preeclampsia, preterm birth, and caesarean delivery. Increased risk was also noted in the 3 years before SSc diagnosis A&R doi.org/10.1002/art.... #Medsky #OBsky

Swedish Medical Birth Register study of pregnancy in systemic sclerosis (SSc) shows increased risk of preeclampsia (RR 3.8; 1.8-7.8), preterm birth (3.3; 1.8-6.1), & caesareans (2.5; 1.8-3.5) esp w/ 1st pregnancy acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Working link! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... to the HLH in pregnancy and the postpartum series we've just published!

Second talk of the PhD ✅ Thank you so much to the @london-immuno.bsky.social for selecting my abstract on sex hormone/chromosome driven mechanisms of cSLE risk #LIG2025 #LIG25 🧬 🦠 @georgearobinson.bsky.social @ciurtinlab.bsky.social

New paper alert🚨 HLH is a hyperinflammatory, sepsis-like syndrome which accounts for ~1% of maternal deaths in the UK. We report 8 individuals with pregnancy-associated HLH referred to the UK HLH network over a 2 year period. 🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1753495X251356108 1/6

🤰🤱🩸♀️♂️ ✅UK based Rheumatology healthcare professional? E.g., Consultant, SpR, Nurse, Physio etc working in rheum? Please spend 5 minutes completing our survey mapping access to reproductive services for rheum patients across the UK. Thank you and please share! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Just finished the @bfn-uk.bsky.social Breastfeeding for Physician's course - informative, broad based course - would absolutely recommend! www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/get-involved...

🩺 Prof. Catherine Aiken sharing key insights from the MBRRACE reports on cancer in pregnancy. 📊 1 in 4,000 women is diagnosed with a new cancer during pregnancy. For most maternity units, that’s ~1–2 cases per year. #MaternalHealth #Oncology

We were so inspired by @bcellsrosser.bsky.social at her Lister Prize presentation this week! @ucl.ac.uk

A more personal substack post today about the first refugee I hosted through @refugeesathome.bsky.social . It's not something I talk about much but I felt I needed to write something in response to the increasingly hostile environment for refugees. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-path-t...

Just added @moms.org.uk, @yasminjamil.bsky.social, @taratmlee.bsky.social, and @catrionawaitt.bsky.social - please let me know if there are others in the obstetric medicine space to add!

Join us online at our UCL Women's Health Graduate Information Session this June to learn more about studying a Master's degree at @ucl-ifwh.bsky.social and how it can help you advance your career 🔬 📅 11 June 2025 ⏰ 12.00pm - 1.00pm BST Book your place now: 🔗 bit.ly/44Ocbbq #postgraduate #UCL

Postpartum and lactation related genitourinary symptoms - in this systematic review over 50% of individuals experienced vaginal atrophy, dryness, & sexual dysfunction during lactation. journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

Histiocyte Society #HLH Webinar "Multi-disciplinary Approach to Managing HLH" Headlined by @racheltattersall.bsky.social and Jessica Manson, @ucl.ac.uk who've really brought HLH excellences to @england.nhs.uk July 24th, 11AM NY/8AM SF/4PM UK/5PM CET Details and link are forthcoming

Fantastic course for emergency medicine, acute medicine, ICU, GIM, anaesthetics, & obstetric SpRs in North Central London. Sign up now! medtribe.com/courses/mate...

RheumaPreg 2025 starts today in Vienna! From May 8–10, experts in rheumatology, immunology, and obstetrics will discuss pregnancy in rheumatic diseases, fertility, placental pathology, immune mechanisms, and clinical innovations. We look forward to an inspiring congress!

Had my first internal presentation of my PhD project with @georgearobinson.bsky.social and @ciurtinlab.bsky.social at @arrdept-ucldom.bsky.social basic science meeting 😁 nervous but excited to share what I have been doing the last 6 months with everyone 👩‍🔬 🎉

Dr. Klara Rosta: "How to approach infertility in rheumatic diseases" #RheumaPreg25 @rheproat.bsky.social Reproductive Trends: - Women having children later (avg. 31 years) - Fertility peak: 20-35 years - Reproductive potential declines after 35 - Biotechnology expanding fertility options 📊

Spotted in Essex today...the whole thing was wriggling and writhing! 🐛🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Great evening at the Royal College for #ActionMedicalResearch fundraising reception talking about our research on #cardiovascular risk in #juvenilelupus. @arrdept-ucldom.bsky.social; @junjie-peng.bsky.social; @georgearobinson.bsky.social; @jury-lab.bsky.social

🚨 Calling midwives! Register now for the next part in our UKMCS webinar series on understanding ECG’s ⤵️