mutations of mortality

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

Saturday, May 31, 2008

London's Moulin

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Here is a controversial subject that I want to air. How should we think about nudity? I see that Christian groups are protesting about a new...
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Private Eye

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What is the first use in literature of the term 'private eye'? I would like to put in a bid for Sherlock Holmes. Although he was nev...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Immunodeficiency 6

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Vaccines Patients commonly ask whether they should receive vaccinations. Their enquiries have two purposes; they want to know if vaccination...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Crewe Blues

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Coming on top of a 20% lead in the local elections, a 20% lead in the opinion polls and the overthrow of Red Ken in London, the Tory victory...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Blind to their own sins

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The final of the European Champions League in Moscow on Wednesday was an exciting match between Manchester United and Chelsea, which the Man...

Abortion debate

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I was distressed to see that parliament did not take the opportunity to reduce the time limit for abortion. Simon Hughes made the point on t...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Psalm 126

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Israel was taken into captivity in Babylon in 586 BC, but after the decree of Cyrus (559-530 BC) the return from exile began, though the wal...

Sweetie

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I finally saw the clip in which Obama called the female reporter by this term of endearment. A bit of vox populi followed. People from Leed...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Immunideficiency 5

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Potential remedies for the immunodeficiency As has already been seen just treating the CLL does not restore immunity and guidelines do not r...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Immunodeficiency 4

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It should be noted that stimulation of the T-cell receptor without interaction between CD28 and CD80/CD86 leads to T cell anergy [4] CTLA-4 ...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Immunodeficiency in CLL 3

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Another prominent and important factor in the suppression of lymphocyte and monocyte function and thus the occurrence of opportunistic infec...
Monday, May 12, 2008

SNIPs

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The prognostic factors of CLL are well established and include clinical stage, IgVH mutational status, CD38 expression, ZAP-70 expression (w...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Psalm 125.

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I saw Tony Curtis on television last week. Bald and bloated yet still flirtatious, he was a gross parody of the young man I first saw in ...
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Friday, May 09, 2008

Immunodeficiency in CLL 2

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In most patients with CLL T cell numbers are increased. This increase mainly affects CD8+ cells, but CD4+ cells are also increased, though t...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

The immunodeficiency of CLL

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Introduction Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) are all to a degree immunodeficient. The most obvious and well-known abnormal...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The Right Reverend Hassan Dehqani-Tafti

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Read this to see what we are up against.

Aphorisms again

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I am writing an article on the immunodeficiency of CLL so I have little time for blogging, but here is my latest collection of aphorisms: Ha...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Your footprints were not seen

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"Your footprints were not seen." The phrase stands out, reminding us of that poster we used to hang in kitchen entitles "Foot...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

My week

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A week of little blogging, largely because I have been so busy. This is how my week went. Monday morning: take train to London. Listen to po...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Socialism

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There is something attractive about the idea of socialism. Who could fail to be attracted by the ideal of giving to those who are needy and ...
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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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