Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, it may also give older women a better chance of ...

Metformin has a boxed warning — also called a black box warning — about this risk. A boxed warning is the most severe warning the FDA issues. Lactic acidosis is a rare but serious problem ...

When it happens while taking metformin, it’s called metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA). The problem is very rare, happening in a tiny fraction of people who take the drug. It’s more ...

A higher prevalence of underlying health conditions as well as fertility problems was also seen among the mothers of children whose fathers used metformin, compared with the mothers of children ...

While it’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat diabetes, this drug is prescribed off-label to treat several other kinda-but-not related health problems. Metformin ...

Left untreated, it can lead to even more severe problems up to and including death. Managing diabetes through lifestyle approaches and medication (like metformin) can decrease those risks.

Shortly after metformin was FDA-approved in 1995, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that metformin helped to lower fasting blood glucose by more than 20 percent.

The research on metformin and human longevity is scant, but that hasn’t stopped some people from experimenting with it. By Mohana Ravindranath A few years ago, Marc Provissiero, a movie producer ...

Metformin is the most widely prescribed diabetes drug in the world. Scientists believe the drug has some colon-cancer prevention benefits. New research provides hints about its use as a ...