A widely prescribed diabetes drug may be sabotaging one of the most trusted strategies for preventing the disease: exercise. That is the conclusion of a Rutgers-led study published in The Journal… read more.
Obese or overweight non-diabetic adults with atrial fibrillation (Afib) who take the diabetes medication metformin after a catheter ablation are more likely to remain free of AFib for… read more.
Use of the diabetes drug metformin appears to be linked to reduced risk of dementia and death in obese patients, researchers reported on August 6, 2025 in Diabetes,… read more.
Researchers report that treatment of type 2 diabetes with glucagon- like peptide- 1 receptor agonists (GLP- 1 RAs) more effectively reduces the subsequent risk of dementia than treatment… read more.
In the early 2000s the U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a large randomized clinical trial, showed that intensive lifestyle modification was better than a medication called metformin at… read more.
What do chickens and people with a common reproductive disorder have in common? More than one might think — and a widely-used diabetes medication might just be the… read more.
Millions of people take metformin, a Type 2 diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar. The “wonder drug” has also been shown to slow cancer growth, improve COVID outcomes… read more.
A large retrospective analysis of the cognitive effects of various antidiabetic treatments has disclosed that the risks of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were significantly lower in patients… read more.
Flinders University researchers have analysed how an antidiabetic treatment could help control the growth of tumours, potentially paving the way for the design of better cancer treatments. The… read more.
Patients who are treated with metformin for type 2 diabetes are less likely to develop a myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). Myeloproliferative neoplasms are cancers that occur when the body… read more.
Glucagon-like receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), a class of type 2 diabetes drug treatments, appear to also reduce the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) researchers reported on Dec. 7,… read more.
You might not think of diabetes when you think of muscle function. But a common diabetes drug that regulates blood sugar can also prevent muscle atrophy and muscular… read more.
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