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 ...

Jelly Roll is opening up about what it took to lose nearly 300 lbs. In an interview with Men’s Health published in January 2025, he explained, “I just remember everyone telling me GLP-1s, or taking ...

Metformin and GLP-1 drugs can complement each other for better results.

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 ...

In a clinical trial, metformin showed no benefit over placebo in improving the six-minute walking distance over a 6-month ...

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 ...

A common diabetes medication does not help people with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and without diabetes walk farther, ...

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 ...

Metformin makes it easier for women with the hormone disorder PCOS to get pregnant, and the mother often gets better ...

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 ...