FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Authors Dr. Fatema Jawad Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Abstract We enter the New Year 2025 with hopes and expectations for more achievements by our Journal of PakistanMedical Association. It has been a very busy past 2024, with increasing number of submissions, which amounts toexcessive work for all at the office. We have published Ten National Supplements, mostly Guidelines and Twosupplements from abroad.The work in the journal office has rather been in the form of policing or catching thieves. The standard of Ethicshas unfortunately receded in the authors. We are detecting more of plagiarized articles, redundant submissions,gifted/ unauthorized authorship, wrong or tampered IRB Approval Letters and sliced articles. It is unfortunate, butthe pressure to publish by the regulatory bodies, takes its toll. In the present times, most students or senior doctorsare not very keen to write research. At times paid help is acquired, which can be expensive and not reliable.Undergraduate students want to publish which gets them opportunities to work abroad. It seems most of theyoungsters desire to travel to the UK or USA for higher studies as they believe that there are more opportunitiesin these countries for a better life. It only proves the disappointments faced in our own country, which weexperience very frequently. The government, the regulatory bodies and the senior faculty has the responsibilityof creating better and favourable opportunities for the younger generation, who will be the future health careproviders for the people of Pakistan.I would like to state a few words of gratitude to the colleagues who have been a pillar of strength in assisting withthe editorial responsibilities of JPMA. Dr. Anwar Siddiqui has shouldered the major load. Dr. Mubeen, Dr. SinaAziz and the recently inducted Dr. Umair Sami are the regular members of the core team. Ms. Maria Najam andRizwana, help out with the technical review of the case reports, whereas Mr. Humair takes care of the Researchand Review articles. Thanks are due to all of them.The office of JPMA is always humming with work. It is lead by Mr. Abdul Majid and the other responsible staff whoassist him include, Mr. Adil, Mr. Faizan, Mr. Munib, Mr. Ghaffar and Mr. Ramzan. It would not be possible to havethe present efficiency without their dedicated services.I take this opportunity to thank all our learned peer reviewers and stats reviewers for their help and assistance.The Special Section is a unique part of the journal for which the section editors hold the responsibility. Dr. SanjayKalra from Karnal, India, organizes the latest information on Primary Care Diabetes, Advances in Endocrinology andBarocrinology. Dr. Shahzad Shamim from Karachi, is the section editor for Neurooncology, Dr. Farooq Rathore fromIslamabad, is responsible for the Rehabilitation section and Dr. Aamna Hassan from Lahore takes care of the IMAGESSection. My gratitude is extended to all of them. Last but not the least are our readers. JPMA is widely read and veryoften we get comments which are published in the forthcoming issues. I am full of thanks to our readership fromall over the world.I end here with all good wishes for the New Year 2025 to all connected with JPMA. My Prayers are for the entirecommunity linked with JPMA. May we have better days in the coming year. We complete 75 years of publicationin 2025 and have grown. May the Almighty Bless us with more success. Downloads Full Text Article Published 2024-12-23 How to Cite Dr. Fatema Jawad. (2024). FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 75(1), 1–1. Retrieved from https://jpma.org.pk/index.php/public_html/article/view/23280 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 75 No. 1 (2025): JANUARY Section FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK License Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.