| McAllister returns to football at Leeds
McAllister has been out of the game since resigning as player-manager of Coventry City in December 2003 to spend time with his wife, who was seriously ill with breast cancer and died in 2006. McAllister's appointment, which will initially be until the end of the season, is sure to find favour with Leeds fans as the former Scottish international is something of a legend in west Yorkshire. He was part of the Leeds squad that won the First Division title in 1992 and played almost 300 times for the club between 1990 and 1996. His managerial experience amounts to little more 1½ years as manager at Coventry. McAllister's only full season at Highfield Road ended with the club in 20th place in the second tier and he had guided his side to mid-table before leaving the club, though he did win a plethora of titles and competitions as a player.
Simple Genetic Test For Prostate Cancer May Soon Be Available
Men with susceptibility for prostate cancer will soon be identifiable through a simple DNA test. So hope scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, who have shown that men carrying a combination of known risk genes run a four to five times higher risk of developing prostate cancer.
At present, men with suspected prostate cancer are identified mainly using what are known as PSA tests. However, the test has a relatively low sensitivity and better methods are needed.
"In the near future, it will be possible to combine PSA tests with simple genetic tests," says Professor Henrik Grönberg at Karolinska Institutet. "This means that fewer men will have to undergo unnecessary biopsies and that more prostate cancer diagnoses can be made."
It has long been known that prostate cancer is partly caused by inherited factors, which makes some men more likely to develop the disease than others.
Sportsmen overcome odds great and small
Heroes, villains, icons, guardians, victims, jailbirds and owners of rather large pet snakes. Sportsmen come in many guises and one of the few things they have shared in common this year was submitting to interview for The Daily Telegraph. In every case, we left them dangling. .
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