Metformin, an oral medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, is often prescribed off-label for weight loss. It helps to control blood sugar by reducing both the amount of glucose produced by the liver ...

“As long as you have good renal function, the side effects are somewhat limited.” Metformin is available to treat type 2 diabetes as-is, and is also used with other drugs in some medications ...

Some dentists notice fewer dental problems in patients taking metformin while other doctors report better overall health in their older patients using the drug. One of the most exciting parts of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Could one pill help us live longer? Scientists and investors are racing to find a drug to slow aging, trying things like metformin and rapamycin. But the ...

A popular diabetes drug may provide protection against skin cancers, a new study says. Metformin significantly reduces people's risk of developing basal cell cancers or squamous cell cancers, the two ...

Metformin, a widely prescribed medication for type 2 diabetes, may help protect individuals from the 2 most common types of ...

As the researchers explained, there's long been good reason to suspect that metformin might improve asthmatics' respiratory health. The drug has anti-inflammatory effects, they said, and it also ...

These medications were sitagliptin, liraglutide, glimepiride, or insulin glargine U-100. Sitagliptin, liraglutide, and ...

May be antagonized by colesevelam; administer glipizide/metformin HCl ≥4hrs prior to colesevelam. Cationic drugs eliminated by renal tubular secretion (eg, amiloride, cimetidine, digoxin ...

Concomitant cationic drugs that interfere with renal tubular transport systems (eg, ranolazine, vandetanib, dolutegravir, cimetidine) may increase metformin levels; consider benefits/risks.