mutations of mortality

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

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Prognostic markers in Bournemouth

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Several people have asked me about getting prognostic markers done in Bournemouth. I should first say that I no longer work at Bournemouth a...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

How the bombers have failed

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Another bomb in London is successfully defused. This one was left in a car in Haymarket outside the Tiger, Tiger nightclub around 2 am this ...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Smoking

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Smoking in buildings used by the public is about to become illegal in England. The Celtic parts of the British Isles have already taken this...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The silver ring thing

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Much fuss about a little girl taking her school to the High Court over not being allowed to wear "Christian jewellry" in school. O...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Ho-hum.

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After the warmest April we now have had the wettest June. The rain is coming down in stair rods and people have been killed by the floods. O...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Mark 12 continued

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Not all the Pharisees are condemned by Jesus. One, impressed by how Jesus dealt with the Saducees, asked a serious question; not a trick one...
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Tony Blair retires

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Well, not quite. He has a few days to go, but his all nighter at the EU summit was his last strut upon the stage. An interesting article in ...
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Borderline mutated

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Although the difference between CLL with mutated and unmutated immunoglobulin variable region heavy chain ( IgVH ) genes is well established...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Each to his own gout attack.

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Bernard Manning the Manchester comedian is dead. He was a fat man of Jewish origin with a pudding basin haircut and long sideburns. His popu...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Mark 12

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Modern people, the worldly-wise, the smart set, fashionable icons, those in the know, power-brokers, the Establishment, they all have a litt...
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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Two very short men

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What to do on an overcast breezy Saturday? We decided to take a trip into deepest Dorset to learn about two very short men. Cloud's Hill...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Popular Culture

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While my wife is reading Alistair MacLean for the first time I have been sampling Harlen Coben. These writers make no claims to literary exc...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Ps 82; G8; Mk 12

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The meeting of the G8 gives Psalm 82 a particular resonance. God presides over a great assembly; he gives judgement among the "gods...
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Saturday, June 09, 2007

SCAM

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I have discovered another site dealing with the way patients are ripped off by snake oil salesmen. Guardian columnist and doctor Ben Goldacr...
Friday, June 08, 2007

Linford Bottom

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It is fifteen years since I gave up leading the Sunday School. Every year, about this time, we would take about 100 kids, aged 5 to 11, on t...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Once a path through the woods

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One of the joys of living in Bournemouth is the proximity of the New Forest. As most people know, the 'New' is an affectation. It ha...
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Sunday, June 03, 2007

DAPK1

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DAPK1 stands for Death Associated Protein Kinase 1. Technically, DAPK1 is an actin-filament-associated, calcium calmodulin-dependent, serine...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

The demands of the dead.

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As a result of the recent pay negotiations family practice has become immeasurably more popular than hospital practice in the UK. Very brigh...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Prayer

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In the nineteenth century answers to prayer were obvious. George Muller prayed for money to fund his orphanages and God provided it. He only...
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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Examining trainee doctors.

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It's sad that the clinical part of the MRCPath (Haematology) exam has all but departed. It enabled examiner and examinee to engage in an...
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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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