Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Fifteen Years

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Welcome to the first issue of volume 15 of the Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The issue has a variety of articles, including a review, three original articles, and two case reports. The narrative reviewon theburden and patterns ofmedical emergencies during Ramadan fasting is the most comprehensive review of the subject hitherto. It addressed all acute presentations of any medical conditions studied during Ramadan fasting. Thismay reflect thewidely variable geographical and timeconditionsover theyears. Theauthors called formore comprehensive studies to consider that the interplay between fasting and feasting with common medical conditions in any emergency encounter during Ramadan fasting. The four original articles are mostly clinically based research. Knowledge, attitude, and the use of complementary and alternative medicine among final-year pharmacy and medical students in Benghazi, Libya,were reported by Seham Shaboun. Rehab Jerbi reported nurses’ compliancewith hand hygieneguidelinesatTripoliUniversityHospital.MasoudAlam and colleagues described the knowledge of sick-day rules among patients on long-term glucocorticoids and healthcare professionals in a UK district general hospital. The relationship between age and pulp cavity size using conebeam computed tomography was reported by Hurria Zahid. One case report is included in the issue. Shatnawi et al’s case report presents the overlap of juvenile dermatomyositis and diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis by Shatnawi et al. The report gives a focused discussion of the clinical relevance of the cases. The flow of articles is still noticeably below our expectations; however, we remain committed to the cause of advancing scholarly publishing and genuine open-access journalism in developing regions. This year we are hopeful to move forward on the indexation path supported by our publisher. We wish you a happy and prosperous year for 2023.