| DNA test may help trace prostate cancer
The study, "Cumulative Association of Five Genetic Variants with Prostate Cancer," was presented in the January 17 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was based on genetic analyses of some 4,800 Swedish men, of whom 3,000 had prostate cancer and 1,800 had no such diagnosis. Every year some 10,000 Swedish men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and in Stockholm alone some 150,000 PSA tests are made each year. .
Violence Continues To Flare In Kenya
After Were's death, groups of armed youths began gathering in two Nairobi slums. Sabat Abdullah, a slum resident, said a gang hefting machetes dragged a doctor from the president's Kikuyu tribe from his clinic "and then cut and cut until his head was off." Similar scenes have convulsed western Kenya, where police in helicopters fired on crowds on Tuesday. Since the Dec. 27 election, the death toll across a country once among the most stable in Africa has soared to over 800. Much of the violence has pitted other tribes against Kikuyu, long resented for their dominance of Kenyan politics and business. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential hopeful whose father was Kenyan, appealed for peace on Nairobi's Capital FM radio station. "Now is the time for all parties to renounce violence.
China's Population and Development in the 21st Century
Various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government have formulated their own policies and regulations according to local conditions. The Chinese Government pays great attention to the issue of population and development and has placed it on the agenda as an important part of the overall plan of its national economic and social development. The Government consistently emphasizes that population growth should be compatible with socio-economic development and be concerted with resource utilization and environmental protection. Since the 1990s, the Central Government has convened a National Summit Meeting on the issue of population and development once a year for the sake of adopting important decisions and measures based upon discussion and analysis of the major problems.
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