Metformin is a safe and effective oral medication for people with type 2 diabetes. Here's how it can help regulate blood-sugar levels.

The NHS has a word of warning on its website for anyone who is taking metformin, though it is especially aimed at people who ...

Timing is everything for many things in life — including when to take medication like metformin, sold under the brand names ...

Metformin is often the first medicine you’ll take if you have type 2 diabetes—for many reasons. It helps bring down your blood sugar level in three ways: It tells your liver to make less glucose. It ...

Almost all current treatment guidelines now recommend initiating therapy for type 2 diabetes with metformin, followed by intensification with other agents in a stepwise fashion as necessary to achieve ...

The increasing popularity of weight loss drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro and metformin may have you wondering how all these options stack up. Are there benefits … ...

Early metformin initiation after COVID-19 infection is associated with a substantially lower 1-year risk for long COVID in adults with overweight or obesity, according to study results published in ...

The use of metformin among people with type 2 diabetes who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with a reduced risk of death and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) — without increasing the risk ...

Metformin is a biguanide used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus and most commonly prescribed oral hypoglycemic agent. Metformin is now also used to treat polycystic ovary syndrome and some ...

In a clinical trial, 6·3% of those who had received metformin while infected with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ended up getting diagnosed with long Covid compared ...