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Metformin reduces the risk of cancer in diabetics
Medicine - Health

Metformin reduces the risk of cancer in diabetics

Recently, a research report by Mexican scientists has been published at the American Endocrinology Annual Meeting, saying that regular use of diabetes medication metform…

December 14, 2018
Diabetes drugs can cure blindness
Medicine - Health

Diabetes drugs can cure blindness

Research results of scientists from the US, published on 7/5 in the journal Science of Visual and Eye Investigation (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science) showed…

December 14, 2018
Opportunities for ovarian cancer patients
Cancer

Opportunities for ovarian cancer patients

US researchers at Mayo Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota claim that metformin - a drug used to treat diabetes at £ 1.3 for a day's dose - could increase the chances of su…

December 14, 2018
Metformin can prevent lung cancer
Cancer

Metformin can prevent lung cancer

The drug metformin, still commonly used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, may also work in preventing lung cancer.

December 14, 2018