A commonly used diabetes drug, Metformin, was found to be effective against knee arthritis pain for people suffering from obesity, according to a recent study. The drug minimised knee arthritis pain ...

THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For patients with overweight or obesity and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, metformin is associated with a greater improvement in knee pain than placebo, ...

1Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 2Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

A novel topical formulation of a BRAF inhibitor significantly reduced acneiform rash associated with anti–epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapies in patients with colorectal cancer ...

“GPs [general practitioners] are very familiar with metformin, which is a low-cost, safe medication,” said the study’s corresponding author, Professor Flavia Cicuttini, Head of Rheumatology ...

Compared with the original placebo group, the median time without diabetes was extended by 3.5 years in the lifestyle group and 2.5 years in the metformin group. The original DPP clinical trial ...

The inexpensive diabetes pill metformin significantly reduced pain from knee osteoarthritis in a small trial of people who are overweight or have obesity. Results from a small trial suggest that ...

AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company is in collaboration with Revna Biosciences (www.RevnaBio.com), a precision medicine research and advanced diagnostics company to provide EGFR (Epidermal ...

Australia: A new randomized clinical trial has demonstrated that metformin, a drug commonly used to manage type 2 diabetes, may significantly reduce knee pain in individuals suffering from ...

INCHEON, South Korea — The diabetes drug metformin may reduce the pain of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in patients with overweight or obese, independent of weight loss, according to results from a ...

Anti-EGFR therapies, such as cetuximab and panitumumab, are a cornerstone of treatment for many cancers, including colorectal cancer. However, they often cause an acneiform rash that frequently ...

Metformin produced a moderate reduction in the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, according to a small randomised controlled trial. The study authors say that the ...