Metformin hydrochloride is type of medicine called a biguanide. Metformin is used when diet alone has failed to fully control blood sugar. It may be used on its own, in combination with other oral ...

(HealthDay News) – The ability of metformin to bind mitochondrial copper may be essential to its mechanism of action. Noting that the target of metformin is unclear but most evidence has shown that ...

Objective Delayed-release metformin (Met DR) is formulated to deliver the drug to the lower bowel to leverage the gut-based mechanisms of metformin action with lower plasma exposure. Met DR was ...

A research team led by Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine's Professor OGAWA Wataru (the Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology) and Project Associate Professor NOGAMI Munenobu (the Department ...

Supplements like berberine, cinnamon, ginseng, and St. John’s Wort can affect how diabetes medications work. Learn the ...

New research led by a team from the University of Gothenburg has found a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can block the beneficial effects of a popular diabetes medication. The research offers ...

Metformin is the main first-line drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, but a new study on monkeys suggests it could one day be used to slow brain aging, too. But metformin's anti-aging effects were yet ...

Taking the medication metformin hydrochloride was associated with reduced risk of developing the sight-threatening disease open-angle glaucoma in people with diabetes, according to a study published ...

A Garvan-led clinical trial has found that using a common and inexpensive type 2 diabetes drug reduces insulin needs in type 1 diabetes, opening doors for improved management of the condition.