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Weekend reflection: Ethics of medical trials

July 8, 2017 by Paul Leave a Comment

 Berlin This week I am in Berlin about to attend the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis meeting (ISTH 2017). It is a meeting where doctors and scientists present their latest research. The importance of ethics in research has been brought into sharp focus for me this week as Angela and I visited some of the historic sites in Berlin. Sachsenhausen Berlin is a … [Read more...]

Clotting: the Swiss connection

July 6, 2017 by Paul 1 Comment

Swiss precision This week I am on my way to the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostatsis meeting in Berlin. This is a great opportunity to catch up with all the latest developments and research in the field of blood clotting. As a stopover, Angela and I spent a couple of days in Zurich in Switzerland; what a beautiful city. I thought there must be some link … [Read more...]

Clot detectives

April 17, 2017 by Paul Leave a Comment

I attended the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand regional meeting in Auckland last week. Professor Barbara Bain, a highly regarded International expert from London was one of the invited speakers. She gave  a really interesting talk on "Haematologists as Detectives". She highlighted some of the cases of poisoning and accidental drug errors that were picked up by … [Read more...]

The Story of Christmas Disease

December 19, 2016 by Paul Leave a Comment

Once upon a time in a land far away, in fact England in 1947, a boy called Stephen was born.  While he was still a baby, his family took him to live in Canada where he soon started having problems with severe bleeding. At the age of 2 years he was diagnosed with haemophilia. On a visit back to England in 1952 at the age of 5yrs, Stephen unfortunately ended up back in hospital … [Read more...]

Thanksgiving – 5 events in coagulation history

November 25, 2016 by Angela Leave a Comment

Even though we live in New Zealand, we like to celebrate the American tradition of Thanksgiving. We have a big family meal and give thanks for the birth parents of our three adopted children (I got this idea from Mia Farrow). Afterwards we get out our Christmas tree and lights to start the long process of decorating inside and outside. Paul is quite interested in the history … [Read more...]

History of the blood-red remembrance poppy

November 11, 2016 by Paul Leave a Comment

On Armistice day, we use poppies as a memorial. Blood-red poppies were some of the only plants to grow on the battle fields of the Napoleonic and First World War. They grow best in fertilised (in war by human blood) and turned over ground (in war by horses, artillary or explosions). They came to represent the sacrifice of the fallen soldiers and were first adopted as a … [Read more...]

Warfarin History 5 – suicide and the president

October 11, 2016 by Paul Leave a Comment

  Like the plot of a movie... Warfarin has been used as a medication for more than 60 years.  The discovery of Warfarin is interesting and sounds a bit like the plot of a movie; it includes a president, dead cattle, an attempted suicide and rat poison.  Like many scientific discoveries of the last century it involved some serendipity, good fortune, the correct … [Read more...]

Virchows triad – NOT an acrobatic troupe!

October 5, 2016 by Angela Leave a Comment

I remember sitting in pathology lectures as a medical student, trying to learn the name of yet another famous Victorian physician and wishing that they had been involved in something other than the study of what causes disease. I would have liked it if Virchow’s triad referred to an acrobat troupe, but instead, as was drummed into us, it stands for three classic risk factors … [Read more...]

Warfarin History 4 – rat poison

October 4, 2016 by Paul Leave a Comment

  Like the plot of a movie... Warfarin has been used as a medication for more than 60 years.  The discovery of Warfarin is interesting and sounds a bit like the plot of a movie; it includes a president, dead cattle, an attempted suicide and rat poison.  Like many scientific discoveries of the last century it involved some serendipity, good fortune, the correct … [Read more...]

Warfarin History 3 – six years to find the cause

September 28, 2016 by Paul Leave a Comment

  Like the plot of a movie... Warfarin has been used as a medication for more than 60 years.  The discovery of Warfarin is interesting and sounds a bit like the plot of a movie; it includes a president, dead cattle, an attempted suicide and rat poison.  Like many scientific discoveries of the last century it involved some serendipity, good fortune, the correct … [Read more...]

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Paul, a specialist haematologist says, “I have a passion for improving anticoagulant management and I’m on anticoagulants myself. My wife, Angela, trained as a doctor, but has concentrated instead on raising our large family. We live in beautiful New Zealand and run INR Online, providing warfarin management software for health professionals.” More

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