mutations of mortality

Someone has just sent me images from Gaza. Who could fail to be moved by a bleeding child. How callous and horrible must be the people who f...

Six bishops in the Church of England have now criticized the government over their being wedded to continuous economic growth. Gordon Brown ...

Several people have asked about the status of heat shock protein 90, inhibition of which was thought of as a new way of treating the most ag...

When I was first converted I used to give a talk about the blood based on the text "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses is from all unri...

Everyone knows that what the BBC does best is its period dramas. After last year’s phenomenally successful 'Bleak House' it has just...

For CLL patients and doctors alike, the main event at ASH was the German CLL8 trial comparing FC with FCR. We already knew from the Roche we...

I have not been blogging much recently. I had the beginnings of a virus in San Francisco and this developed into a heavy cold - what most pe...

I was 18 when Judgement at Nuremberg was released, but I first watched it a couple of nights ago. It is a serious film about the second worl...

On our return from San Francisco we found a flood. A water tank in the loft had overflowed. My daughter's bedroom ceiling was saturated,...

When I first began attending Lansdowne Baptist Church Trevor and Rona Locke were legends. As pioneer missionaries in India they were support...

Back from San Fransisco. This was my second visit, but I can't remember much about the last one except walking on the boardwalk at Pier ...

Finally the carol is completed. The tune is O Holy Night. Still was the night, the silent world was waiting The time was right and the place...

At the age of 25 Winston Churchill wrote this: "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanat...

I see that the world's oldest person has died in Indiana. Edna Parker, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. She ...

I was asked to write a fourth verse to the Christmas poem, so here it is: I came to you at Christmas but not just for Christmas Day. All thr...

CLL mpatients have to have operations just like anybody else. Are they at particular risk? The answer is no, not unless they have reduced pl...

Last week we were at a family funeral, this morning a visiting preacher told us of one of his elders who was suffering from terminal cancer....

It has been standard advice that CLL patients should not receive vaccines containing live attenuated viruses. Thus MMR, oral polio, yellow f...

The idea that the B cell receptor might be used as a target for immunotherapy belongs to George and Freda Stevenson who published a paper in...

I came to you at Christmas when the frost had fixed the grass, When they decorate department stores with balls of coloured glass, When the S...