The Shahroud Journal of Medical Sciences (formerly published as the International Journal of Health Studies) is preparing to publish a special open-access, online-only issue focused on medical sciences. As a peer-reviewed, open-access, bimonthly journal indexed in the Scopus, we invite the submission of original, previously unpublished manuscripts in a wide range of fields, including Medicine, Epidemiology, Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health, Public and Population Health, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Clinical Specialties such as Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Psychiatry, Hematology, Hepatobiliary Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, Nephrology, Nuclear Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Pathology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Rheumatology. The journal publishes various types of articles, including Original Research Articles, Clinical Trial Reports, Systematic Reviews, Review Articles, Brief Reports, Perspectives, Letters to the Editor, and Clinical Case Studies. All submissions must be original and not under consideration or published elsewhere in any substantial form.