Message from the editor.

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Me em mb be er rs s a an nd d J JI IM MA A R Re ea ad de er rs s: : This issue of JIMA is devoted to the proceedings of IMANA/Hofstra Ethics conference held in Long Island, New York, September 17-18, 2010. I believe it covers a lot of information that is useful and interesting. This will be the last printed issue of JIMA. We will continue publishing JIMA online. You can read the articles on jima.imana.org as they are accepted and prepared. If you register on the web site, you will be notified by e-mail whenever new content is added. We are still working to publish all the back issues online. As you know, PubMed Central has agreed to accept JIMA's articles for its repository. Thus JIMA articles will show up when users of PubMed Central search for terms matching the terms associated with JIMA articles. To facilitate this process, IMANA has become a member of CrossRef, the agency that assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to its mem-bers' electronic documents. JIMA contracted with Data Conversion Laboratories (DCL) to handle submission of its articles to the PubMed. All articles in JIMA should be easily accessible to readers all over the world who use internet. The articles would be easily and permanently identified and stored in digital form. JIMA's Twitter account is available at http://twitter.com/#!/jislammedassoc. People who prefer to receive updates via e-mail can subscribe to a weekly summary of JIMA's status updates on Twitter at http://paper.li/JIslamMedAssoc. JIMA's status updates include announcements of IMANA activities, published JIMA articles, and medical news of interest to IMANA's members and audience. This effort is done to expose IMANA and JIMA to a wider audience. Periodically, IMANA Headquarters should remind people to access these social media and share in their circles. The Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America (JIMA) has now acquired the most up-to-date technological status in the era of electronic publishing. I invite you all to submit your articles to be published in JIMA. W Wa as ss sa al la aa am m, , A As ss sa al la aa am mu u a al la ay yk ku um m