mutations of mortality

At the end of a busy three weeks I take a trip to Boston to advise Big Pharma about the unmet needs in hematological oncology. Since the suc...

Michael Owen has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament. The cruciate ligaments are the fibrous strands that hold the knee together, joinin...

One of the interesting questions about the TeGenero trial was why it was conducted in normal volunteers. In fact why are any trials conducte...

My latest reading is a novel by Leah Stewart - Body of a Girl. It is told in the first person by a female crime reporter and tells the story...

Tomorrow I have to give evidence at the enquiry about what went wrong at the Northwick Park Phase 1 study of the TeGenero superagonistic ant...

We have been having a mini-heat-wave in England with temperatures in the eighties. I had to spend a couple of days in Holland, where it was ...

Good to see Australia beating Japan in the World Cup. I am glad that Tim Cahill scored a couple; he has been playing very well for Everton. ...

Elmore Leonard is over 80 and I've just got around to reading my first novel by him. Get Shorty and Jackie Brown were both based on his ...

I've just watched a DVD of "Cheaper by the dozen". This was a popular movie that got sniffy reviews by the critics. I rather e...

Three inmates commit suicide at Guantanamo: how should we regard that? If one had killed himself, we might have put it down to being held in...

Summer has undoubtedly arrived. Most of England is sweltering under cloudless skies with temperatures in the eighties. A drought order is be...

Have you heard about all those people who've had their mercury fillings removed? Have you ever thought of doing the same? Can't deci...

An important meta-analysis has appeared in the BMJ. When COX-2 inhibitors appeared they were seen as an answer to one of the real problems o...

The latest possible date for Pentecost is June 13th, so June 4th is a relatively late date for it, though three years ago it was on June 8th...

This is a true story. My memory was prompted by Jenny Lou's posting that a watery discharge from the eye turned into white pus after ste...

We have all heard of p53, usually in a negative way. We know that cancer patients whose p53 has gone missing have bad news disease. It is th...

We have blue tits nesting in the bird box in the garden, which means no more football on the lawn. With eldest grandson coming on Monday thi...

The venue for my daughter's wedding was just over the old Severn Bridge into Wales. Well, I say Wales, but when I went to school Monmout...

This really has been a cold spring in England. We have our first blue geraniums out in the garden, the pink ones have been out for a couple ...

I have just watched the DVD of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I thought it very well done. My usual complaints that the music was too ...