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 Maria Dall'Era the Jean S. Engleman Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, to discuss the key papers that were featured on the Lupus Forum from our July literature searches.