While it was once “just” a medication for people with type 2 diabetes, metformin is now thought of as a “wonder drug with multiple potentials,” says David Cutler, M.D., a family medicine ...

Studies also suggest it may even lower the risk of cancer, dementia and stroke and also slow aging, leading some physicians to ask whether metformin, like aspirin, is a veritable wonder drug.

A cheap diabetes drug taken by millions could ward off an aggressive and deadly form of blood cancer, a study suggests. University of Cambridge researchers found metformin, which costs the NHS ...

Metformin is prescribed for type 2 diabetes. It’s a generic medication that's available as the brand-name drugs Fortamet and Glumetza. The drug comes as an immediate-release and an extended ...

Metformin, a widely used and affordable diabetes drug, could prevent a form of acute myeloid leukemia in people at high risk of the disease, a study in mice has suggested. Further research in clinical ...

Metformin, the first-line drug for diabetes, has low bioavailability and slow, incomplete gastrointestinal absorption. We hypothesized that gastric bypass would further reduce the absorption and ...