mutations of mortality

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

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Life on Mars

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In a meeting in London yesterday listening to the young men argue and thinking, "What do they know?" I was shocked to find that th...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Psalm 99

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Psalm 99 is an evocation of the character of God. It begins, "The LORD reigns." This a something we seldom remember. Or we think o...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Health Care and the Uninsured

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An interesting article by Karen Davis (President of the Commonwealth Fund; Head of Health Policy at the US Department of Health 1977-91) has...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Cricket

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The comment is a little late, but England have won a cricket match against Australia. Astonishingly, the team of no hopers have won the trop...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Consolidation therapy with Alemtuzumab

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This is another section on consolidation therapy to follow on from the section on bone marrow transplantion. An alternative approach with po...

Minimal residual disease

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This is a concept that is confusing for most people, but it is vital if you are to understand the treatment of leukemia. There are 1,000,000...
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Sunni and Cher

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As I was thinking about Iraq today I found myself humming. "I got you, Babe". No, it was not just the wakeup call on Groundhog Day...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Bone marrow transplantation for CLL

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This is the next section in the article that I am writing in the Lancet. In leukemia, remissions are traditionally consolidated with high do...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

As Time Goes By

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For the past 6 weeks our TV watching has just about been confined to the DVDs of As Time Goes By. We bought the whole series for Christmas. ...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Reading

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It has been a long time since I posted what I have been reading. Rest assured I have been reading. I am almost up to date on the Terry Goodk...
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Monday, February 05, 2007

The label came off

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I feel ambivalent about pharmaceutical companies at the present time. There is no doubt that they have contributed greatly in the fight agai...
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Treatment of CLL

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I am in the midle of writing a review of CLL for the Lancet Oncology. Here is a first draft of the section on treatment. The finished articl...
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Friday, February 02, 2007

Military matters

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Today I have posted in full from Hansard a speech on military matters by Tobias Ellwood, who is my local MP. He seems to know a thing or two...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

LIST

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This a list of the notable things about Britain in no particular order. The discovery of the DNA code by Francis Crick Smallpox vaccination ...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Gay adoption, the church and quality radio

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The fuss about gay adoption has a simple solution. The Catholic Church should refuse the Government funding. Government has a right to dicta...
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The Church on Mindoro

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Here are some pictures of the rebuilding of the Church on Mindoro in the Philippines, which was recently devastated by the Typhoon there. Th...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Summertime

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A Private Members Bill is currently before Parliament proposing to switch England on to European time. The effect would be that more of the ...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

The religious rights of communities

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A Muslim doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, ...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Working with your hands

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Today I put up two shelves in the kitchen. Our kitchen cabinets, which are more than 30 years old could really do with extra shelves, but wh...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Why I believe the Bible.

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Shortly after I was converted I was talking to an old lady at church. She was going on about the Great Flood that covered the earth at the t...
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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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