Dear authors and reviewers! From the entire editorial office we congratulate you on your professional holiday!

On this special day - Medical Professionals' Day - we would like to express our sincere gratitude to you, those who stand at the origins of scientific progress in medicine and biology.

Your research, articles and expert evaluations make an invaluable contribution to the development of medical science, helping doctors around the world to save lives and improve the health of patients. Your genuine passion for your subject, keen interest, perseverance, hard work and critical thinking keep science moving forward and medical practice more efficient.

We wish you inspiration, new discoveries, successful publications and recognition in the scientific community! Let your work brings not only professional satisfaction, but also the joy of realizing its importance.

We are pleased to present the latest issue of the journal, Volume 16, Number 1.

All articles in this issue are in English, and three original studies have been translated into Russian.

In this issue:

- We introduce an approach to achieving remission in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus through dietary and behavioral interventions, as discussed by physicians from the Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in India.

- We discuss ways to protect monocytes in ischemic cardiomyopathy through the use of vascular endothelial growth factor with researchers from the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education, Siberian State Medical University.

- We investigate various markers of bone tissue remodeling in children with the terminal stage of chronic disease with a multidisciplinary team of authors from Sechenov University.

- Continue studying the effect of heat shock protein HSP70 on neurobiological processes in mice in Sechenov University laboratories.

- Watch the video "Microsurgical Clipping of Aneurysms of the Right Middle Cerebral Artery Bifurcation, Ophthalmic Segment of the Right Internal Carotid Artery Using MIPLATTA Access" to see the record of clinical experience. The video is available via the link in the article by neurosurgeons from the Federal Center for Neurosurgery of the Ministry of Health of Russia.

Starting with this issue, the editorial office will ask the authors of all accepted Russian articles to translate them into English. A native English speaker will proofread the translation. Both the English and Russian versions will be posted on the journal's website. This will increase the articles' visibility to an international audience.

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Maria Nadinskaia, Head of the Publishing Center of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), who is also a member of the Council on Ethics of Scientific Publications of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP), has been selected  to be the moderator of the section "Ethics of Scientific Communication and Ethical and Legal Problems of Using Artificial Intelligence" at the 13th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Scientific Publishing of International Level - 2025: Development Trends".

The conference, organized by the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP), will be held in Moscow on May 20-23, 2025.

Within the section on the ethics of scientific publications Maria Nadinskaia will give a lecture “Who is the author? Problems and possible solutions related to authorship in biomedicine”. Authorship in scientific articles is one of the key ethical issues in the editorial policy of biomedical journals. Guest, ghost, fake authorship, lack of recognition of real contribution, lack of responsibility for the content of the publication, commercial pressure, change of authorship team after manuscript submission - how are such problems solved taking into account international recommendations? The lecture will be based on examples from the Sechenov Medical Journal.

The experience of the ASEP conference will undoubtedly contribute to the work of the editorial boards of the journals published by Sechenov University.