mutations of mortality

When I attend a committee that awards grants to researchers, I am of course sworn to secrecy about what goes on there, but I can blog about ...

The BMJ has reviewed the respective health care plans of the two American Presidential candidates. As summarized by the medical journal McCa...

Earlier this year new guidelines on CLL were published by the IWCLL. I have to admit that despite being consulted about the paper before pub...

West College, Princeton. I am always hungry for silly little anecdotes, especially ones about the derivation of words, and I was told one y...

Last night I watched an episode of Poirot. David Suchet is far and away the best impersonator of Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detect...

This is a sketch of my wife that I made in 1968.

It is a constant rule that every ruler becomes unpopular in his or her mid-term. It was obviously true of Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 19...

Since clearing the loft for the electrician to come I have been sorting through what I should keep and what I should throw away. I came acro...

There has been quite a lot of discussion lately about prolymphocytes. A prolymphocyte is a lymphocyte that looks different down the microsco...

As if we didn't have enough problems my wife fell backwards out of the loft to land on her back ten feet below. Although concussed by th...

Not much blogging this week, but it's been a week of calamities. It began with a light bulb blowing in the bathroom. The light fitting t...

Although everyone is familiar with the autoimmune complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a clear understanding of their pathog...

Many people are confused over why some doctors recommend reducing the white count before starting rituximab. Remember that rituximab was ori...

Even though everyone in the UK will be affected by the American election, we don't get to vote in it. That is probably a good thing beca...

This is the fourth time I have written about single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in relation to CLL and I do so in response to a paper fr...

We have been watching two television series with strikingly similar themes. One is 'The Tudors' and the other 'House of Saddam...

Although fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab (FCR) has long been standard treatment for CLL in America, there has hitherto been no e...

We have been dog-sitting out daughter's rough collie, Jemimah (this is not she). Rough collies are very friendly dogs but wear a very he...

One of the problems of allowing the Government to run anything is that they allow political biases to interfere with the smooth running of t...

From this morning's Independent : "The BBC was forced to apologise yesterday after admitting that its flagship news bulletin had in...