Discover how the common prescription drug metformin works in the body and how it fights everything from diabetes to cancer.

Supplements are being recalled because they contain prescription diabetes drugs that could have fatal side effects.

A breakthrough study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is challenging long-held assumptions about the ...

Metformin oral tablet is a generic prescription drug used to help manage high blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. It can interact with alcohol, other medications, and some ...

In a guideline published online Dec. 9 in Schizophrenia Bulletin, recommendations are presented for the use of metformin to ...

A new guideline recommends prescribing metformin when initiating an antipsychotic to help mitigate weight gain in certain ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that while a drug called metformin has potential as a cancer treatment, ...

Credit: Northwestern University A Northwestern Medicine study has discovered that metformin, a common Type 2 diabetes medication, works by blocking a key part of the mitochondrial energy production, ...

Until now, scientists have been unable to determine how metformin, a Type 2 diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar, works. A study provided direct evidence in mice that it reversibly cuts the ...

Until now, scientists have been unable to determine exactly how metformin works to lower blood sugar, reduce inflammation and ...

Millions of people take metformin, a Type 2 diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar. The "wonder drug" has also been shown to slow cancer growth, improve COVID outcomes and reduce inflammation.