A surprising new clinical trial has revealed that metformin—a cheap, century-old drug widely used for type 2 diabetes—may help people with type 1 diabetes in an unexpected way. While researchers ...
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 ...
Researchers tested the drug on 40 adults with long-term type 1 diabetes in the Insulin Resistance in Type 1 Diabetes Managed ...
A new research paper was published in Aging (listed as "Aging (Albany NY)" by MEDLINE/PubMed and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 3, entitled, "Metformin use history and genome-wide DNA ...
Metformin showed promise for improving the overall survival rate of patients with melanoma; however, this result may be an indirect consequence of the drug. “Based on the progress of research on new ...
New research from Baylor College of Medicine suggests metformin, long used to treat type 2 diabetes, also acts directly on the brain’s hypothalamus via the protein Rap1. In mouse experiments, removing ...