Modern Money Had and Received

Money and Modern Banking without Bank Runs

Bank runs in the literature take the form of withdrawals of demand deposits payable in real goods, which deplete a …xed reserve of goods in the banking system. That framework describes traditional bank runs based on currency withdrawals as occurred historically in the U.S. and more recently in developing countries. However, in a modern banking system, large withdrawals typically take the form o...

Development of tuberculosis in a patient treated with infliximab who had received prophylactic therapy with isoniazid.

A Case of Esophageal Candidiasis in an Adolescent Who Had Frequently Received Budesonide Nebulizing Therapy

Corticosteroid (budesonide) nebulizer therapy is commonly performed. Its side effects have been considered as being safe or ignorable. The authors present a case of esophageal candidiasis in a healthy female adolescent who was treated with budesonide nebulizer therapy a few times for a cough during the previous winter season. This child presented with dysphagia and epigastric pain for 1 month. ...

The Osteoblastogenesis Potential of Adipose Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Myeloma Patients Who Had Received Intensive Therapy

Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterized by advanced osteolytic lesions resulting from the activation of osteoclasts (OCs) and inhibition of osteoblasts (OBs). OBs are derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from the bone marrow (BM), however the pool and function of BMMSCs in MM patients (MM-BMMSCs) are reduced by myeloma cells (MCs) and cytokines secreted from MCs and related anti-MM treatme...

Aberrant thyroid testing results in a clinically euthyroid patient who had received a tumor vaccine.

To the Editor: Hemochromatosis is a common autosomal recessive genetic disorder of iron metabolism. In the United Kingdom, more than 90% of patients with hereditary hemochromatosis are homozygous for the C282Y mutation of the HFE gene, but other single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the HFE gene, namely H63D and S65C, have also been associated with the hemochromatosis phenotype. Various...