For millions of people who live with racing thoughts and a pounding heart, help might already be sitting in the medicine ...

When Is the Best Time to Take Metformin? Timing is everything for many things in life — including when to take medication like metformin, sold under the brand names Glucophage, Fortamet, Riomet, and ...

A 2025 study suggests that metformin — a widely used treatment for type 2 diabetes — may also be associated with longer life ...

A widely prescribed diabetes drug may be blunting the beneficial effects of exercise in patients, a new study suggests. More than 450 million people across the world suffer from type 2 diabetes – with ...

An inexpensive medication used to treat type 2 diabetes may help prevent long COVID, according to new research published June 8 in the Lancet Infectious Diseases. When assessed 10 months after their ...

Diabetes drug metformin may reduce the risk of a serious eye disease (macular degeneration) by 37%, helping diabetes patients ...

Metformin is a widely prescribed antihyperglycemic agent designed to improve glucose tolerance in patients with type 2 diabetes. In fact, it was the second-most commonly prescribed drug in the U.S. in ...

Metformin is the latest medication to be recalled due to concerns about a contaminant that may cause cancer. This time the contaminant is NDMA, which doesn’t stand for North Dakota-Massachusetts but ...

Researchers are assessing whether a drug used to treat diabetes could help halt the progression of a potentially deadly condition. Metformin is a common medication used by people with type 2 diabetes, ...

The drumbeat of US recalls continues for various lots of extended-release metformin due to contamination with unacceptably high levels of a nitrosoamine that pose a cancer risk. On December 28, Viona ...

Metformin may reduce the risk of intermediate AMD by 37% in diabetic patients over 55. The study analyzed ocular images from 2,000 patients over five years, adjusting for key variables. Metformin's ...