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Diets lean on meat and rich in healthy fats like olive oil were most effective at promoting weight loss and lowering blood sugar among people with diabetes in a review of evidence from the last 10 years. Benefits were also seen with diets low in carbohydrates, high in protein or low in simple sugars. “If you look at different types of diets, these four can improve various aspects of diabetes control,” lead author Dr. Olubukola Ajala, a diabetes specialist at Western Sussex Hospitals in the UK, told Reuters Health. More than 24 million Americans have type 2 diabetes. . . .

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LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline, Britain’s biggest drugmaker, renewed its promise to return to growth this year, after failing to deliver a hoped-for sales and margin recovery in 2012. GSK also announced a restructuring of European operations, drug manufacturing and research, designed to save at least 1 billion pounds ($1. 57 billion) annually by 2016, while it placed its Lucozade and Ribena drinks brands under strategic review. After putting a number of major drug patent losses behind it, GSK had originally banked on pulling out of its trough in 2012. . . .

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DENVER (AP) ? It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not, under state law, human beings.

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CHICAGO (AP) ? Commonly used steroid shots may worsen tennis elbow in the long run and increase chances that the painful condition will reappear, a small study found.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Opponents are pressing to delay enforcement of the city’s novel plan to crack down on supersized, sugary drinks, saying businesses shouldn’t have to spend millions of dollars to comply until a court rules on whether the measure is legal.

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LONDON (Reuters) – British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which paid $3 billion last year to settle charges that it gave misleading information on its medicines, said on Tuesday it would publish more of its clinical research data. When the company agreed to the fines last July, government officials called it the largest healthcare fraud case in U. S. history, involving Glaxo drugs such as the antidepressant Paxil and diabetes pill Avandia. Other firms have also reached settlement deals and the industry has come under growing pressure from campaign groups to release all their clinical trial data. . . .

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6 easy ways to boost heart health: Sleep, go for salads, yoga, relationships, dark chocolate.

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PARIS (Reuters) – French drugmaker Sanofi said on Tuesday that its Zaltrap drug had been approved for marketing in the European Union to treat metastatic colorectal cancer. The approval came after a recent late-stage study of the drug showed significant improvement in survival among patients with colon cancer. (Reporting By Christian Plumb, Editing by Dominique Vidalon)

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MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (Reuters) – The FBI stormed an underground bunker in rural Alabama on Monday, safely rescuing a 5-year-old boy held hostage for nearly a week and leaving his kidnapper, who had also killed a school bus driver, dead. After a standoff of more than six days, FBI agents struck the bunker when they feared the kidnapped kindergarten student was in "imminent danger," said Steve Richardson, special agent in charge in Mobile. . . .

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LONDON (AP) ? The world’s most advanced tuberculosis vaccine failed to protect babies against the infectious disease, according to a new study in South Africa.

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