GLP-1 receptor agonists, a class of drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, likely trump the widely prescribed metformin for ...

I am a 75-year-old woman who isn’t prediabetic or diabetic. My BMI is 31.2. My doctor has prescribed a trial of metformin for ...

A wearable technology developed by Technion Professor Hossam Haick and colleagues in China enables real-time, noninvasive ...

While it was first shown to help people with prediabetes or diabetes, it is also effective at helping people with normal ...

Metformin is a widely used first-line therapy for type 2 diabetes, and studies increasingly point to its protective effects ...

Could metformin, the most widely used diabetes drug in the world, be useful for fighting a number of health problems? Early research suggests the decades-old drug can slow cancer, reduce heart ...

6·3% of those who had taken metformin while infected with the SARS-CoV-2 ended up getting diagnosed with long Covid versus 10.4% of those who had received placebo only.

The diabetes drug metformin hydrochloride has been recalled because it contains excess levels of a cancer-causing agent, the US Food and Drug Administration announced this week. The drug’s ma… ...

Metformin may have anti-aging properties because of a cellular recycling process called autophagy. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains what autophagy is and why boosting this process might slow aging.