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Prof Jane Munro

@drjanemunro.bsky.social
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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.

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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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 ❤️
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Australian Rheumatology Association @austrheumatology.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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!
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Best start to the day. Melbourne, I love you. #Mastersrowing #MUBC
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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.
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Creature has been fixed!
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
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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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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
When I say “something came up” this is what I mean
Mouse reading in bed
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter from me and the Creature 🐰🐣❤️
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Officially autumnal in Melbourne 🍁🍂❤️
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025
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.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/03/2025
“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...
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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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/03/2025
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.
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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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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Mrs Frazzled on US national security is possibly the best thing online, ever. www.instagram.com/reel/DHmnQOj...
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
❤️ www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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...
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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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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Another shameful decision in the US with wide reaching impact.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
11. Screening program with the Mexican government to identify illicit drugs like fentanyl being smuggled at the US border.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
8. USAID’s contract for supplying essential medicines for maternal and child health in countries worldwide – terminated.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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...
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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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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
6. All U.S.-backed development programming in Afghanistan, including maternal and child health services and girls education – terminated. (Estimated to cause >1,200 maternal deaths by 2028.) betterworldcampaign.org/funding/what...
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Impacts of the U.S. Foreign Aid Pause
We're tracking recent Executive Orders. Below are developments as of Feb. 26.  Impact from Funding Freeze The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), a lifeline for distributing humanitarian aid in hard ...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
5. All deployable U.S. teams for earthquake assistance – terminated.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
4. USAID’s contract supporting deadly outbreak prevention, detection, and response, including Ebola and Bird Flu, in 50 countries – terminated.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
3. All supplies of US-manufactured emergency food packets for starving children on the brink of death – terminated. newrepublic.com/article/1919...
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Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk
Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
2. All tuberculosis programs, including the Global TB Drug Facility – terminated.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
1. All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Cracking article by Madeleine Hanger. womensagenda.com.au/latest/id-ra... @madshanger.bsky.social
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I’d rather hammer a nail through my frontal lobe than listen to Marty Sheargold
Marty Sheargold's comments on the Matildas tap into a deeper, darker seam in our country. We must demand better.
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Beautiful article ❤️
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/02/2025
The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/02/2025
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Come join our fantastic research team at MCRI and RCH in Melbourne where we’re studying childhood rheumatic diseases and especially Juvenile Arthritis. www.seek.com.au/job/81862803...
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Research Assistant/Nurse Job in Parkville, Melbourne VIC - SEEK
We are currently seeking a passionate and dedicated Rheumatology Research Nurse/Assistant to join our dynamic team within the Rheumatology Unit
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Let this light a fire. Another excellent article by Prof Leanne Rowe on doctor’s health and workplace abuse of doctor’s in training - shining the light on Board Director’s responsibilities and risks here clearly too. @mja.com.au insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/5/workp...
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Public hospital leadership must eliminate workplace abuse of doctors in training, not perpetuate it
Recently, doctors in training across the country expressed their widespread frustration about the derogatory attitudes
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos
Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald Trump
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Birthday axe throwing with the family tonight. Super fun 🪓❤️🪓❤️
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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Chronic Pain in Kids = Huge Problem Largest systematic review by @drcchambers.bsky.social et al (119 studies; >1 mio kids 0 to 19 years from all countries): - 1 in 5 kids experience chronic pain - for most types higher pain prevalence among girls than among boys pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38743558
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Morning Blueskyers it’s here! Aussie Xmas at the hospital 🎄 Hope your weeks are fab. @inquisitivegyn.bsky.social @drericlevi.bsky.social @nishaobgyn.bsky.social @toddcameron.bsky.social
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Prof Jane Munro @drjanemunro.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What a special treasure of a book: First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture by A/Prof Shawana Andrews, Prof Sandra Eades and Prof Fiona Stanley ❤️
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