[What's new in internal medicine?].

What's new in internal medicine will be dedicated to three topics: i) inflammatory myopathies constituting a heterogenous group of diseases whose clinical manifestations, immunological abnormalities, treatment response and outcomes vary widely; ii) alterations of gut microbiota contributing to the occurrence or development of a range of conditions, including autoimmune diseases for which further work is necessary to understand the correlation of dysbiosis with these diseases; iii) the reciprocal relationship between obesity, metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis and autoimmune diseases. New data concerning systemic sclerosis, cutaneous vasculitis, adult Still's disease, autoantibodies anti DFS70, Epstein Barr virus and autoimmune diseases were also highlighted.