Diabetes drugs may be doing more than managing blood sugar, they could also shape cancer biology in unexpected ways.

Various factors determine the best time to take your blood sugar medications, including how the medication works and its side effects.

Learning that you have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes can be overwhelming, even though both conditions are extremely common.

Researchers found that metformin -- a drug that has been around for more than a half-century to regulate blood sugar -- may have a different ability: It can target senescent cells that affect muscle ...

Humans may be one step closer to finding the Fountain of Youth — sort of. Researchers will begin testing Metformin, a medication used to treat diabetes, as an anti-aging drug in a clinical trial next ...

Millions of people in the UK who have diabetes are being urged to watch out for two "serious" symptoms if they use metformin ...

In rare cases, it's possible to have a serious allergic reaction ( anaphylaxis) to metformin. The NHS says: "You should call ...

Metformin is a widely prescribed blood sugar-lowering drug. It is often used as an early therapy (in combination with diet and lifestyle changes) for type 2 diabetes, which afflicts more than 34 ...

Almost all current treatment guidelines now recommend initiating therapy for type 2 diabetes with metformin, followed by intensification with other agents in a stepwise fashion as necessary to achieve ...