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Red Meat May Up Breast Cancer Risk	Eating more than one serving of red meat every day may double a woman's risk of developing some forms of breast cancer. This is the latest finding from an ongoing study of female nurses, conducted by researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Compared with women who ate three servings or fewer of red meat a week, those who ate more than one-and-a-half servings a day were found to have a 97% increased risk for developing hormone-receptor-positive tumors. The growth of these breast cancers is fueled by hormones; it's the most common type of the disease.
FDA OKs New Type 2 Diabetes Drug	People with type 2 diabetes have a new treatment option: a drug called Januvia. Januvia is the first in a new class of drugs called DPP-4 inhibitors that help the body control high blood sugar. Januvia comes in tablets; patients take the medication once per day. The drug may be used with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. Januvia may also be taken with the oral diabetes drugs metformin, Avandia, or Actos when any of those drugs, along with diet and exercise, don't adequately control blood sugar. Metformin is sold as Glucophage and as generic metformin.