Nature or manufacture: What should we fear most?

Should We Fear Deflation?

DEFLATION IS BACK. In the six months from October 1998 to March 1999, some 438 articles about deflation appeared in major U.S. newspapers, compared with only 36 in the first half of 1997 and 10 in the first half of 1990. For sixty years, ever since the middle years of the Great Depression, deflation was a nonissue. Next to no one worried about it. Next to no one viewed a general decline in the ...

Should We Fear Derivatives?

I n chemistry, a derivative is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a “substance related structurally to another substance and theoretically derivable from it” or “a substance that can be made from another substance.” Derivatives in finance work on the same principle. They are financial instruments whose promised payoffs are derived from the value of something else, generally called the...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

The calcium paradox - What should we have to fear?

The calcium paradox was first mentioned in 1966 by Zimmerman et al. Thereafter gained great interest from the scientific community due to the fact of the absence of calcium ions in heart muscle cells produce damage similar to ischemia-reperfusion. Although not all known mechanisms involved in cellular injury in the calcium paradox intercellular connection maintained only by nexus seems to have ...

IgA deficiency: what we should-or should not-be doing.

Although IgA deficiency (IgAD) is currently recognised as the most frequent immunodeficiency in humans, individuals with IgAD are largely considered to be healthy and when discovered are usually not investigated further or followed up. The rare occasion when IgAD is a cause for concern is when these individuals require blood or blood products, in which case current practice advises that product...