Type 2 diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. One of the more effective and popular medications in use to control the disease is the drug called metformin. While the said drug is known to be effective in managing a diabetic’s blood sugar levels, doctors have not been able to fully explain how and why it works. But the researchers from McMaster University have been able to discover ho

Recent research suggests that new treatments for diabetes may not necessarily be better or more effective than older ones. A relatively common drug that has been used to treat type 2 diabetes for more than 15 years still works just as well as a number of newer and more expensive diabetes medications and may have fewer side effects. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found out that metformin,