mutations of mortality

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

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Unanswered prayer

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We all have to wrestle with unanswered prayer. I remember at the age of 13 learning about my grandfather having bowel cancer. I went to my b...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Ross and Brand

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Russell Brand, 33, and Jonathon Ross, 47, are two well known radio presenters who were paid huge amounts of money by the BBC to present musi...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Isaiah chapter 12 - something to sing about

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A young English woman is gunned down in Afghanistan by two young thugs on a motorcycle armed with an AK47. She has been 'spreading Chris...
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Global cooling

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From rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com Roger Helmer is Conservative MEP for the East Midlands. This increase in CO2 worries me. It seems to be ma...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Dark Fire

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If you haven't discovered them yet do read the Matthew Shardlake novels by CJ Sansom. I have just finished the second which was better t...

Health update

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I saw the surgeon today and we discussed what to do about the lymph node that could be seen on the CT. Thus far we have no explanation for i...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

FCR: No country for old men

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Outcome of treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) depends more upon the nature of the disease than the type of treatment given. De...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Screening tests

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I have three times been tempted into having myself screened for serious disease. It seems like a sensible and prudent thing to do as one get...
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Bad Science

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For those who are still being taken in by the the Great Climate Change Fraud I recommend reading this essay by Lord Monkton . I am grateful ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Orissa

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Readers may have seen the outrages taking place against Christians in the Indian State of Orissa. I wrote to my local MP, Tobias Ellwood abo...
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Dealing with distractions

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Do you find that when you decide to spend time in prayer you are bedevilled with distractions? The phone rings, a pneumatic drill starts up ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The death of Richard Cooey

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The prisoner who claimed that he was too fat to be humanely executed by lethal injection was nonetheless put to death by this method in Ohio...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

No time for prayer?

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I know how busy you are. Sometimes I wished for 8-day weeks or 25 hour days. Everything seems to be crammed into shorter and shorter times. ...
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CD200

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Wikipedia tells us The protein encoded by this gene is a type-1 membrane glycoprotein, which contains two immunoglobulin domains, and thus b...
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Alcohol

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Prohibition does not work. My son Richard studied prohibition for his history degree at University College, London. He remains convinced tha...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Euathanasia

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Dr Philip Nitschke, a controversial Australian euthanasia advocate dubbed "Dr Death", has been banned a second time from hosting a...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Discipline in prayer

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Mother Teresa had her nuns rising at 4-30 am for a cold-water bath before morning prayers. Some Bible Colleges have a strict rule of rising ...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Struck off!

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A warning for doctors who recommend alternative therapies appeared today in the records of the General Medical Council. A doctor had been a ...
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You are changing me

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I have not abandoned my study of prayer, but for the past month events have consumed my time, and I had reached an impasse concerning the im...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Anne Boleyn

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Anne Boleyn lost her head in the last episode of the second series of the Tudors . The series made her out to be a conniving, ambitious sedu...
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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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