Professor Ed Vital, Chair of the Lupus Forum, Associate Professor in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases, and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at the University of Leeds in the UK, is joined by Professor Richard Furie, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Department of Medicine, Northwell Health, New York, and Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine as they discuss the key papers that were featured on the Lupus Forum from our August literature searches.