The Food and Drug Administration approved metformin for treating people with type 2 diabetes in 1994. It’s also frequently prescribed for those under age 60 with prediabetes.

Metformin won FDA approval as a medication to treat type 2 diabetes in the mid-1990s, but it has been widely used in Europe for decades. The newly published analysis did not compare metformin head ...

Could metformin, the most widely used diabetes drug in the world, be useful for fighting a number of health problems? Early research suggests the decades-old drug can slow cancer, reduce heart ...

There are a few drugs, though, that hold promise for increasing healthy lifespan — including metformin, a widely used drug that lowers blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes by improving the ...

Metformin may sound like what you would say after meeting former professional boxer George Foreman. But it’s a medication commonly used to control high blood sugar in those with type 2 diabetes.

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 ...

A commonly prescribed drug for diabetes, metformin, has a new side hustle. Besides helping to manage blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes, metformin can also fight off a type of cell that builds up in ...

The diabetes drug metformin might also benefit older patients after an injury or illness, a small study suggests. Researchers found that metformin -- a drug that has been around for more than a ...

Metformin cut the risk of long COVID by about 40% for patients who received a two-week course of the drug while battling their infection, the researchers reported. Top News U.S. News ...

Two lots of a widely used type 2 diabetes medication, metformin, are being recalled due to possible contamination with a potentially cancer-causing compound. Metformin is designed to lower glucose ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved metformin for treating people with type 2 diabetes in 1994. It’s also frequently prescribed for those under age 60 with prediabetes.