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 Chris Edwards, Consultant Rheumatologist at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Chair of Clinical Rheumatology within the University of Southampton to discuss the key papers that were featured on the Lupus Forum from our August and September literature searches.