mutations of mortality

This strange word is an anglicization of an Arabic word, meaning dissimulation (which is a long word meaning telling lies). I got it from a ...

After my illness in Canada I have decided to reassess what I am doing. As I was being driven to the hospital by Dr Ronan Foley I said to him...

This picture is of a fence designed to keep out illegal immigrants. We don't like fences do we? At least Javier Solana doesn't like...

One of the most pressing topics to come up in Canada was the usefulness or otherwise of ZAP-70 as a prognostic factor. In fact John Byrd sai...

I've been 'off air' for some time. For those who don't know, I have been to Niagara to speak to North American CLL sufferers...

I am actually quite fond of Brian Ferry and Roxy Music. Some of his interpretations of Bob Dylan's songs are outstanding. I see he has a...

I have been away from my blogging desk for some time, but I must comment on the goings on in Iraq and Iran. Whatever way you spin it, the ca...

There has been a furore in Canford Cliffs because the local branch of HSBC bank is in future to provide a counter service only for customers...

When should a CLL patient have a CT scan? The first thing to say is that for the past 30 years the staging of CLL has been carried out very ...

I have been asked to write a second stanza for LeBlanc and Baloche's well known hymn, to take it past the crucifixion so as to tell the ...

The fool says in his heart there is no God. Psalm 14 is almost identical to Psalm 53. In David's day atheists were thin on the ground an...

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. So wrote Francis Bacon in the 16th Century, quoting from St John's...

The large mountain sometimes seen from Seattle is called Mount Rainier (pronounced 'raneer'). If you can't see the mountain it...

Tomorrow most of my family will be in America. Diane and I will be visiting Richard in Seattle and David will be in Florida working at some ...

Caves spotted on Mars : Dark 'skylights' could be openings to Martian shelters. The headline writer in Nature seems to have missed ...

This from New Scientist NICE, the body the looks at the cost-effectiveness of new treatments, has been operating in the UK for the past 8 ye...

Nikola Tesla, 10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943, was a world-renowned inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. He was ...

Further to the debate on academic freedom was this from the Sunday Telegraph of March 11th this year. Scientists who questioned mankind'...

Have you heard of TANK cells ? It stands for tumor activeated natural killer cells. Natural Killer cells are part of the non-specific immune...

I quote from the Wikipedia article. The word paradigm comes from the Greek word παράδειγμα (paradeigma) which means "pattern" or ...