mutations of mortality

A few straws in the wind in Iran. I have been keeping a weather eye on what has been happening in Iran over November. Of course the longstan...

The German CLL8 trial has been the most important study in CLL thus far reported. But there are a lot of scientific data that derive from th...

Another topic that has been insufficiently addressed is the whole question of maintenance rituximab. This Spanish abstract deals with the qu...

Moorlands College is one of the Charities that I support. My former Pastor, Steve Brady, whose book I recently reviewed, is the Principle th...

Chris was kind enough to publish a link to the ASH abstracts for this year and I have just started looking at them. The first one from the G...

He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hou...

An article in the Student Edition of the BMJ has prompted this article in today's Independent Female doctors who have laid siege to the ...

Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father als...

I am still waiting for news about the monoclonal antibody. I am told that we should hear today. Meanwhile it has been an eventful week. Firs...

Universities face a record 15.1 per cent slump in UK applicants after the tripling of tuition fees, official statistics show. Rising numbers...

Peter Kellner is a left-leaning pollster and journalist. Here is what his blog is saying about the state of the parties just before the Chan...

In today's Times Libby Purves has written an article about testing for British Citizenship. Many countries have introduced such a test f...

The annual hospital guide published by Dr Foster Intelligence using official figures shows that one in eight trusts has higher than expected...

This is the abstract of the paper from the NEJM that I was taling about in the last posting. It comes from the UK (including my old unit in ...

I mentioned some weeks ago that the spliceosome is going to be important in CLL. The spliceosome is an epigenetic mechanism which is involve...

"In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the ...

Very sad today to read of the apparent suicide of Gary Speed, the team manager of the Wales soccer team. I remember his playing days at Leed...

One of the supposed advantages of cord-blood transplantation is the suggestion that intensive matching is not required. Advocates of this vi...

One of the things I have been complaining about is the idea that there is a high degree of autoimmunity in CLL patients. It is absolutely tr...

Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, has promised a referendum to the people of Scotland to repeal the Act of Union whereby Scotlan...