The goal of the research is to study the risks and innovative benefits of distance learning. The main research method is an anonymous survey of academic staff (university teachers) and students (future philologists, foreign language teachers), based on the need to clarify the situation associated with the use of distance learning technologies in the conditions of the quarantine. The following data have been obtained in the course of the study: the most significant opportunities for distance learning, the level of satisfaction with distance learning technologies, the compliance with the previously drawn up training schedule in the distance learning conditions, the satisfaction with the promptness of informing about the training schedule, the use of distance learning technologies to provide feedback, the factors that affect the quality of the implementation of distance learning technologies, the teachers' positive experience of using distance learning technologies, the use of distance learning technologies when providing students with lecture materials, as well as the use of information resources of the institution by the students. The results of the study have revealed that both students and teachers are aware of the need to work in a distance learning environment, but the coronavirus pandemic has created new risks for the higher education system, which require an innovative approach to overcoming barriers in the distance learning system. The results of the article can be used in the organization of distance learning at a humanitarian university.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the cause of the development of diabetic nephropathy — a complication that determines the high degree of disability and mortality of such patients. Until recently, approaches to normalizing glucose levels did not have a significant possibility of influencing the outcome of kidney damage in diabetes. Type 2 sodium glucose cotransporter inhibitors (SGLT2) are a new class of glucose-lowering drugs that improve glycemic control due to an insulin-independent mechanism of action associated with increased urinary glucose excretion. The review provides an analysis of the results of studies on the assessment of nephroprotective actions — one of the pleiotropic actions of this drugs group. These materials show the properties of SGLT2 inhibitors to reduce the risk of developing and the progression of albuminuria, to save glomerular filtration rate, to reduce the frequency of end-stage renal disease and the need for renal replacement therapy in patients with T2DM. The article gives and analyzes the currently existing hypotheses of the mechanism of action of these glucose-lowering drugs. The risk of the most common renal complications with the use of SGLT2 inhibitors is considered. The practical aspects of the use of SGLT2 inhibitors in modern algorithms for the care of patients with T2DM are indicated, as well as the prospects for new randomized clinical trials.

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