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Yale Medicine School: How a Widely Used Diabetes Medication Actually Works
March 02, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news:

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Metformin has a long record of being safe and effective, but nobody knew how it works.

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Physicians have used the drug metformin to treat type 2 diabetes for more than half a century, but despite its prevalence, researchers have lacked a clear understanding of how it works. Now, Yale researchers have elucidated the mechanism behind metformin . . .

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