Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found that metformin -- a drug that has been around for more than a half-century to regulate blood sugar -- may have a ...
Evidence from a clinical trial and long-term cohort studies suggests metformin, widely used in diabetes, may reduce knee ...
New research now suggests that stopping diabetes drug metformin early may up the risk of developing thinking and memory problems as patients age. File Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI Millions of people with ...
Multiple randomized clinical trials and electronic health record studies now show that metformin, a widely used and ...
Metformin is an old drug. In its earliest form, it was an extract from lilacs and was purportedly used in the 1700s to treat what the French called “sweet urine disease,” which we now know as diabetes ...
Multiple randomized clinical trials and health record studies show that taking metformin during or soon after SARS-CoV-2 infection lowers the risk of long COVID. This makes metformin the first ...
A decades-old diabetes drug that costs mere pennies to produce holds the potential to radically shift how we think about the human lifespan. Consistently namechecked by the biggest players in the ...
Metformin, a medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, helps the body regulate sugar in the bloodstream. Part of the class of drugs known as biguanides, metformin reduces the amount of sugar ...
A safe, generic diabetes pill can help people avoid long COVID, a new clinical trial shows. Metformin cut the risk of long COVID by about 40% for patients who received a two-week course of the drug ...
Metformin makes it easier for women with the hormone disorder PCOS to get pregnant, and the mother often gets better throughout the pregnancy. Her children, however, have a markedly higher risk of ...
In people with COVID-19, metformin reduced coronavirus levels in the body 4 times more than a placebo pill. There’s evidence that metformin might make COVID-19 less contagious. Because research is ...