Prof Jane Munro
@drjanemunro.bsky.social
Doctor. Prof. Paed Rheumatologist. #Medsky Royal Children's Hosp, Uni Melb, MCRI, Public Health, WCLP, Writer PWE at RMIT Dr's health Churchill Fellow Mum Views my own. Melbourne Australia.
Most adults with needle phobia trace it back to a single bad experience as a child. That’s the problem we built the paed path service at Victorian Children’s Clinic in Malvern to solve with Australian Clinical Labs. Now we’re trialling Smileyscope. Come check us out. We’ll look after you ❤️
As Senior Editor (Paediatrics) for the ARJ, we welcome Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social Paediatric rheumatology is vital, and ARJ will ensure voices and insights from caring for children are well represented across Australia and beyond. ARJ launces in May at the ASM - stay tuned!
End of an era with the retirement of Dr Margot Nash from The Royal Children’s Hospital - a lifetime of caring for patients & their families, & mentoring, caring & advocating for doctors in training and for improving the system. Wishing her all the fabulous things for retirement.
Congrats to Deb Tunbridge on being named the 2025 Child & Adolescent Health Service Nurse of the Year in Western Australia. Well deserved recognition for Deb’s dedication & commitment to her patients in the paediatric rheumatology service over 30 years including those with Juvenile Arthritis.
Delighted to share this work on Juvenile Arthritis drug treatment cycles and rates of flares published today in Rheumatology from our team and led by Dr Georgie Tiller, Dr Jonathan Akikusa and wonderful medical student and now intern Dr Emily Bugeja. academic.oup.com/rheumatology...
Disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug treatment cycles and rates of flare in juvenile idiopathic arthritis—a tale of Sisyphean endeavour?
AbstractObjectives. Withdrawal of Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) to determine need for ongoing medication is common in JIA management. Litt
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When I say “something came up” this is what I mean
NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
Can someone explain to me how this is making America healthy? Because to me, it seems like this isn't about health at all—it's dismantling the very systems that protect us when it matters most.
Who was fired? HIV office? Gone. Environmental health (like heat risk to children with asthma)? Gone. Gun violence office? Gone. Injury prevention? Gone. Communications? Gone. Worker safety? Gone. Division of reproductive health? Gone. Disability health? Gone. TB prevention? Gone.
But beyond jobs, historical knowledge, and projects stopped in their tracks, this will impact Americans' health. Viruses don't pause when government stops working. Bacteria doesn't pause. Worker safety doesn't pause. Chronic diseases don't pause.
Today, thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs, effective immediately. People are literally finding out if they were fired at security when they try to badge in. It's cruel and unnecessary, which is the point.
“A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.” www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
As Doctors Predicted, RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick
A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.
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President Trump did not rule out seeking a third term in office on Sunday, telling NBC News that he was “not joking” about the possibility and suggesting there were “methods” to circumvent the two-term limit laid out in the Constitution.
Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution
President Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said there were “methods” that would allow a third term. The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person from being elected to more than two terms as president.
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Mrs Frazzled on US national security is possibly the best thing online, ever. www.instagram.com/reel/DHmnQOj...
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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Delighted to host the International Women’s Day Grand Round today at the Royal Children’s Hospital with these incredibly impressive and inspiring women who filled the hour with deeply interesting discussions - thank you Selena White, Claudia Barriga & Dr Linny Phuong & my co-host Prof Margie Danchin
Another shameful decision in the US with wide reaching impact.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last yr.Scholars around the world who depend on State Department funding to participate in long-established programs like Fulbright say their payments have been abruptly cut off after getting a notice that officials were reviewing their activities.
Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
12. A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates the only source of water for 250,000 displaced people in camps located in the center of current conflict.
11. Screening program with the Mexican government to identify illicit drugs like fentanyl being smuggled at the US border.
9. Services from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation - just one organization - reaching 350,000 people on HIV treatment, including nearly 10,000 children and more than 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant women – terminated.
8. USAID’s contract for supplying essential medicines for maternal and child health in countries worldwide – terminated.
7. Over 1,000 food kitchens in Sudan, a country with almost 25 million people experiencing acute food insecurity – terminated. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/g...
Trump administration cuts most USAID programs. And, the ethics of leaving your job
Nearly all USAID programs have been eliminated. One official says it's a "global health massacre." And, a federal judge will hear arguments over the decision to fire thousands of probationary workers.
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