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In older men with diabetes and prostate cancer, taking the diabetes drug metformin was linked to a lower risk of death, according to a new study.Researchers found metformin's apparent benefits accumulated over time. Among men with diabetes in Ontario, Canada, who were over age 66, the study found a 24 percent reduction in prostate-cancer mortality for every six months of metformin use, and a similarly lower risk of death from any cause for the first six months."Among diabetic men with prostate cancer metformin should be considered the drug of choice, not only for diabetes control but possibly to improve prostate cancer outcomes," Dr. David Margel, a urologist at Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel, and lead author of the study, told Reuters Health in an email.The World Health Organization estimates that prostate cancer is among the top five leading causes of cancer death worldwide.Approximately 1 in 7 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their l...
Could a common medication prescribed for diabetes also treat a killer among women? One group is saying yes.Health.com is reporting ovarian cancer patients who were t...
A drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes may delay the effects of aging and increase life span, a new study in animals suggests.Mice that were fed the drug, called metfo...
The commonly prescribed diabetes drug metformin could potentially double as an effective form of ovarian cancer treatment, according to a new study.Researchers from ...
If you see products on store shelves that claim to treat, cure, or prevent diabetes and its complications, the Food and Drug Administration wants to you to beware: i...
Ninety birthdays maybe, but not 120: Americans hope to stretch out life expectancy another decade or so, but they're ambivalent, even skeptical, about a fountain of ...
Results from a new study suggest low doses of the diabetes drug metformin may effectively destroy pancreatic cancer stem cells, reducing the risk of tumor growth or ...
The diabetes drug metformin may spur the growth of new brain cells, which could have benefits for Alzheimer's patients, a new Canadian study on mice suggests.The stu...
Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones, concludes an analysis that is good news for diabetics and may further hurt sales of Avandia, a...
Commonly used diabetes drugs such as metformin may help control lung cancer , and may help prevent it, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.Patients who had taken th...
People with type 2 diabetes have a new treatment option: a drug called Januvia.Januvia is the first in a new class of drugs called DPP-4 inhibitors that help the bod...
George Armstrong, a type 2 diabetic who lives in Sydney, Australia, was feeling well enough – but he noticed he was gaining weight, and his insulin-dependency made i...
American pediatricians, alarmed by the rise of type 2 diabetes in children and failure rates for oral medication, are recommending early aggressive treatments with i...
One of the many medications used to treat type 2 diabetes may stand out above the rest.Metformin used alone is still the best for lowering blood sugar and preventing...
Rates of overweight and obesity in U.S. children and teens may be leveling off, but kids at the extreme - the severely obese - are still swelling in numbers and need...
The information leaflets pharmacies give to customers along with their prescriptions vary widely in their content, and may often be difficult for people to read and ...
The information leaflets pharmacies give to customers along with their prescriptions vary widely in their content, and may often be difficult for people to read and ...
A cheap and relatively safe diabetes drug, metformin, might have cancer-fighting properties, according to an international study - but findings fall short of proving...
The suspected cancer-fighting effects of the cheap diabetes drug metformin just got more backing from two new studies in the journal Diabetes Care.Metformin is taken...
The commonly used diabetes drug metformin stinks, literally, and this may explain why many patients stop taking it, U.S. doctors reported on Monday.The drug smells l...
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