It’s 10 years since we launched the BUMPs (Best Use of Medicines in Pregnancy🤰) website to host our patient information leaflets. We are now delighted to announce that the website has a fresh new look and improved functionality. 🎉 medicinesinpregnancy.org

Had a Teams meeting with someone I once knew. Our last encounter was in a classroom. We had a racist teacher. 10+ years later she reaches out because she heard about me & wondered if we could collab., neither of us seemed to remember that we once knew each other, until...🧵

So excited to be bringing #BICS24 to Edinburgh. It's going to be our biggest and best conference yet!

#Moorfields international #Uveitis symposium, 11-13 July in London. Featuring a vast line-up of speakers including Mr Harry Petrushkin Will Tucker Colin Chu Narciss Okhravi Dr Tas Braithwaite Onn Min Kon Charlotte Frise Dr Lola Solebo 💙👶🏾👁️👩🏾‍💻 just to name a few...Book now checkout.moorfields.nhs.uk/product?catalo…

So important to appreciate the suppression of inflammatory signs & symptoms by IL6 inhibitors which may mask infection, as two further cases in Rheumatology & Rheumatology Advances in Practice illustrate
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Come and join our committee! We are looking for:
- Trainee rep (obstetrics)
- Obstetric physician rep

Please consider applying - your contribution to our growing society would be very welcomed. Info on eligibility & application process on our website (below)

Deadline 1.6.24

💥 NHS STAFF 💥

Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

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Yes! This 👇

Is this advanced NHS phishing or is this something real? If the latter, perhaps more explanation is required!

Come join our Royal College of Ophthalmologists webinar and hear from retinal, obstetric, and obstetric medicine consultants 'on Pregnancy and the Eye: management of medical retina conditions'

ihub.rcophth.ac.uk/iCore/Events/E…

Samantha de Silva Charlotte Frise

Important work. The Heat in Pregnancy-India program is trying to find out why heat affects pregnant women and how to protect them ⁦The George Institute for Global Health⁩ ⁦DBT-THSTI⁩ ⁦Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health⁩ ⁦Ram Thiruvengadam MD PhD⁩ ⁦Shinjini Bhatnagar⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Great start to Imperial NHS 💙 maternity & KK Women’s Collaboration- sharing UK best practices in maternity & learning about SingHealth
Denise O'Donnell Lisa Greene Janice Sigsworth RN 💙 Andrew Worthington Jessica Read Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE Lay-Kok Tan Mandish Dhanjal

Because the RCP is a large, complex and rather opaque organisation, here is a thread about how it is organised and functions.

And some of the ramifications that the current goings-on are shedding light on.

So buckle up punters, for a Vaughan mega-nerd 🪡
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Proud to be a small part of this very important project. Tories out!
ITV #BREATHTAKING Dr Rachel Clarke Jed Mercurio

With the increased use of SGLT2 inhibitors (including people without diabetes, see recent evidence in HFrEF), starvation may trigger ketosis and ketoacidosis. This can include euglycaemic DKA.

Low threshold for checking capillary ketones in anyone who is unwell.

Just came across this interesting study from NEJM Evidence. Overcorrection of #hyponatraemia is common, and osmotic demyelination syndrome is rare. The majority of ODS occurred in people whose sodium was managed appropriately! #hyponatremia evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Ramadan fasting and pregnancy: an evidence-based guide for the obstetrician ow.ly/7Fp250QPGGE

Ramadan fasting and pregnancy: an evidence-based guide for the obstetrician ow.ly/7Fp250QPGGE

Lancet Laboratories Netcare Limited And of course an honorary appearance by Lizemarie Wium, chair of SOOMSA and Obstetric Physician extraordinaire!

Appreciation post for Charlotte Frise. Our meeting this week would not have been possible without you, and Obstetric Medicine at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital would be far less established than it is. Thank you for being an incredible mentor!