Oct 16 (Reuters) - Men can take the widely prescribed diabetes drug metformin without fear of causing birth defects in their children, according to results of a large study published on Wednesday.

At clinically relevant exposures, turning that switch down in the brain was required for metformin to lower glucose, and tiny ...

Metformin is an old drug. In its earliest form, it was an extract from lilacs and was purportedly used in the 1700s to treat what the French called “sweet urine disease,” which we now know as diabetes ...

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Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works. A new study suggests it works directly ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPI) --Medical science continues to develop new and innovative ways to boost health and well-being, but a relatively old drug -- metformin -- may hold the key to human longevity and ...

Potential fathers with type 2 diabetes can be reassured that taking the drug metformin is not associated with birth defects in their offspring, concludes a large study of more than 3 million ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are telling five drugmakers to recall their versions of a widely used diabetes medication after laboratory tests found elevated levels of a contaminant linked ...

A combination of metformin, a common diabetes drug, and clemastine, an antihistamine, can help repair myelin—the protective ...

Dr. Rojas-Quintero is researching how Metformin, a long-used diabetes drug, may be able to slow fibrosis in the lungs.

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) Men can take the widely prescribed diabetes drug metformin without fear of causing birth defects in their children, according to results of a large study published on October ...