Medical research
Patients experiment with prescription drugs to fight aging
Dr. Alan Green's patients travel from around the country to his tiny practice in Queens, N.Y., lured by the prospect of longer lives.
Mar 8, 2019
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News tagged with metformin
Oncology & Cancer
Old drugs bring new hope to a cancer that lacks precision therapy
An estimated 15 to 20 percent of all breast cancer patients are "triple negative." These unfortunate women lack three crucial treatment targets—the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth ...
Mar 6, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Combination treatment, diabetes drug and immunotherapy, may help to fight breast cancer
Researchers in Finland have discovered a drug combination that collaborates with the cancer cell oncoprotein MYC, which, in large quantities, causes self-destruction of the cancer cells. When this combination is enhanced ...
Feb 6, 2019
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Cardiology
Diabetes drug could be used to treat common heart failure syndrome, study suggests
Researchers at the University of Arizona have discovered that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, might also be used to treat heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a condition that ...
Dec 19, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Obesity intervention needed before pregnancy
New research from the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute supports the need for dietary and lifestyle interventions before overweight and obese women become pregnant.
Dec 6, 2018
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Cardiology
Diabetes drug might also ease heart failure risks
(HealthDay)—The diabetes drug Farxiga might do double-duty for patients, helping to ward off another killer, heart failure, new research shows.
Nov 12, 2018
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Diabetes
Diabetes medication may protect against a common cause of blindness
Researchers from Taiwan have shown that people with type 2 diabetes who took a common diabetes medication, metformin, had a significantly lower rate of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study suggests that the anti-inflammatory ...
Oct 29, 2018
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Diabetes
Scientists discover a new lead for mechanism of action of diabetes drug metformin
Canadian and British researchers have discovered how the frontline Type 2 diabetes drug metformin may work to help cells better take up and use glucose. Their study, published today in the prestigious journal Cell, may also ...
Oct 24, 2018
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Diabetes
Researchers discovered a new mechanism of action in a first-line drug for diabetes
For decades, metformin has been the first-line drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, lowering blood glucose levels by inhibiting glucose production in the liver. Metformin also improves glucose uptake and use by muscle ...
Oct 23, 2018
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Diabetes
New way to prevent heart disease in type 1 diabetes
Scientists reveal the mechanism which allows a commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes to prevent heart disease in patients with type 1 diabetes–and could lead to new treatments.
Oct 19, 2018
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