mutations of mortality

Random thoughts of Terry Hamblin about leukaemia, literature, poetry, politics, religion, cricket and music.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Warm weather

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Thank God for the Gulf Stream Drift. Here we are at 51 degrees North and the temperature is 61 today (16 for the European Union). In the gar...
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Friday, December 29, 2006

Death penalty for Saddam

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Saddam is about to be hanged. This is the time to consider my views on the death penalty. The arguments for: It is the ultimate sanction. D...
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

The Archbishop's Christmas Message

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From the Times today this comment on Iraq. Christians in the Middle East are being put at unprecedented risk by the Government’s “shortsight...
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Children's Christmas

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Christmas is really for the children. Especially for children who like animals, stable, stars and babies wrapped in swaddling clothes. Then ...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Christmas is coming.

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The cold weather has certainly come to Britain. I remember one Christmas, it must have been 1957, when we had a houseful of visitors at Chri...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Murder in Ipswich

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They have arrested a man for killing, in the past 2 weeks, five prostitutes in Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, and a miserable place - ...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Partition?

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Here's an unwelcome fact. At the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the first world war, Britain had 410,000 troops in Iraq to control a m...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

My text is John 3:18

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John 3:18 "Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed ...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Tests

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I suppose they are called test matches because they test the patience of the most loyal English supporter. It looks as though by tomorrow it...
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Debunking Christmas

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I brought my children up not believe what people told them without checking the facts themselves. I'm glad to see that my eldest son at ...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

ASH

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ASH is over for another year. I arrived back on Tuesday morning and spent most of the day falling asleep at inappropriate times. Today I spe...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

More Sword of Truth

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I have just finished the ninth book in the Terry Goodkind "Sword of Truth" series. If you read the reviews on Amazon it seems that...
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Food for thought

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I had my first Christmas dinner yesterday. This morning I topped the 200 pounds mark. This year has been a poor year for the Hamblin shape. ...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

CLL mistakes

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How much do general haematologists know about CLL? I have just been consulted about a patient who died of complications of treatment and I i...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Christmas giving.

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I doubt that it made many headlines in Europe or the USA but a couple of months ago a devastating typhoon that hit the Philippines south of ...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Vladimir Polon

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A few days ago I posted on the folly of buying the new Eurofighter to defend ourselves against attack by the Russians. Has all this changed ...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

News from Pakistan

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A report from Pakistan in today's Sunday Times caught my eye One woman is raped every two hours and one gang-raped every eight hours, ac...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Cross and crosser

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The worm is turning. Christians are tired of being doormats. For years it has been forbidden (and downright dangerous) to mock a Moslem, bru...
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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Chemotherapy combinations

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Whenever an oncologist finds two drugs that are both effective in a particular cancer, his natural inclination is to combine them. It makes ...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Faith Schools

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Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is a priest in the Church of England. He is of Pakistani origin and is a convert from Islam. He is an academic with seve...
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Terry Hamblin
Born in Worcester, England 1943; school at Farnborough, Hampshire 1954-62; University 1962-7 and junior doctor posts 1967-74 in Bristol; Consultant Haematologist Bournemouth 1974-2003; Professor of Immunohaematology Southampton 1986 to present. Honorary Consultant Haematologist Kings College Hospital, London, 2004-present. After 5 years of working part time researching, writing, reviewing, editing, speaking, sitting on committees, advising, answering questions and thinking, I now think of myself as fully retired apart from my role as Editor in Chief of the medical journal Leukemia Research. I was awarded the Binet-Rai medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2002 and this has been my most sucessful area of research, but I have also made important contributions in the fields of apheresis, stem cell transplantation, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, antibody therapy, cytokine therapy and DNA vaccines. I was once mascot for Aldershot Town Football. Club. Married to Diane for 44 years. Four children, Karen, Richard, Angela and David.
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