John Axford

A holistic rheumatologist who likes patients and enjoys his job.

[John Axford @ProfAxford]

@RheumatologyUK #bsr2023
@ElenaNikiUK David Jayne tells us that 38%of lupus patients develop nephritis and we should strive to make the diagnosis. Maybe dipstick is not enough?

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@RheumatologyUK #bsr2023
@ElenaNikiUK great to be back at BSR in person. It’s been 4 years. And wow has the technology changed 👏👏 Well done BSR 👍

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@OUHospitals #oneteamoneOUH @RheumatologyUK @VersusArthritis I am sending very many thanks to the John Radcliffe orthopaedic team for their kindness competence & knowledge when they put me back together. It’s salient for a rheumatologist to have a disability. NHS is just the best

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@CheltLitFest @taniahitchins @RoySocMed reflecting on Jeremy Hunt’s desire to cut unnecessary NHS deaths to “Zero”. Laudable but with over 10 years in health he gives no solutions. As funding and doctor numbers decrease the number will increase. Sad but inevitable.

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#CheltLitFest @taniahitchins Max Hastings has just spoken for 70mins, with sound effects, about the last time we came close to nuclear war;Cuba. “Nuclear war the final failure” = JFK

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@RheumatologyUK @RCPhysicians #CheltLitFest @taniahitchins In blustery Cheltenham and just met Henry Marsh. Quote of the day:hope is one of the most precious drugs doctors have .

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Just back from Green Park floral tributes, 2 minutes silence, those camping on the Mall and now watching the live lying in state. What a bunch of really nice people together we live with. Ah! finally a moment of solace.

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@irishglycogirl Welcome to the world Eanna🌸and many congratulations Mum and Dad. ☀️

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@irishglycogirl @ProfAxford @glyconet_nce @RheumatologyUK @GGlycoscience @RoySocMed @ElisaTelisa super talk by Alisdair Boraston about peptidases with a sweet tooth.

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@ProfAxford @GGlycoscience @RoySocMed @RheumatologyUK @ElisaTelisa @irishglycogirl #jennerglycomed great talk by Thomas Clausen on binding of malarial VAR2CSA to oncofoetal chondroid in sulphate depends on sulphation and ligand accessibility.

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@ProfAxford @RoySocMed @RheumatologyUK @ElisaTelisa @irishglycogirl @glyconet_nce @GGlycoscience @timspector #jennerglycomed A privilege to interview sir Greg Winter. Staring at 3D antibody molecules was good CBT after a very painful mugging.

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@irishglycogirl @GGlycoscience @glyconet_nce @RoySocMed #jennerglycomed @ElisaTelisa in an excellent talk tells us that the SARS-CoV-2 glycan shield is integral to activity and hence a target for inhibitors.

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@irishglycogirl Interesting to see if in AAT deficiency sialylation also occurs.

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@ProfAxford @RoySocMed @irishglycogirl @BSI_UK @RheumatologyUK @BiochemSoc @GGlycoscience @glyconet_nce #jennerglycomed has started in Leuven. Link is via RSM website.

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@RoySocMed @RogerKirby12 @WesselyS @RCObsGyn tonight a superb RSM meeting with Lesley Regan , who has done so much for women’s health. We first met in 1995. I was inspired and established the obstetric rheumatology clinic at StGeorge’s. It was held in secret as not important!

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@RoySocMed @RogerKirby12 @WesselyS @UCL_Holocaust @HolocaustUK Simon Wessely “in conversation”with Anita & Maya Lasker-Wallfisch is historic. Now 95 Anita survived Auschwitz & Belsen & played the cello whilst there. She has moved on & supports Holocaust education not a memorial.

[Steve Shaw @srgshaw_shaw]

Dear Mr Hancock, my wife a now retired ITU nurse has applied to be a vaccinator ...After 4 hours she has got through the 3rd module (fire safety) of 16. What is needed to put 0.1ml into the deltoid muscle ?

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@RoySocMed @liberty_wines @RogerKirby12 @CeoRsm @RSM_dean Another delicious evening with MacQuitty MBE Gleave Kirby banter, served with Riesling and Cahors. Thank you RSM for giving us an excuse to relax. Can’t wait for the next tasting.

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@RoySocMed @RogerKirby12 @liberty_wines Another delicious evening courtesy of RSM. Tonight we were transported to Monein to drink Cauhape and the Rhône for Perrin. The MacQuitty and Gleave banter hilarious and Roger’s french fantastic. Roll on next week.

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@CheltLitFest @taniahitchins @hannahmcinnes @IainDale Dale + Shafak + dotty Dotty and chaired by the enchanting McInnes, gave us one of the best. Finished too soon. Take home = We have lost a sense of nuance in our society.