Researchers say the type 2 diabetes medication metformin may help treat age-related macular degeneration, which could prevent ...

A five-year image-based study in people with type 2 diabetes found metformin use was associated with lower odds of developing ...

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This finding was based on the results of a study published in BMJ Open Ophthalmology1 that patients with diabetes who were ...

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Doctors have found that metformin, an everyday medicine for diabetes, is associated with less progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the commonest cause of blindness in western ...

Growth is driven by the rapidly aging global population, rising prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, and ...

Iconic Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks, 76, revealed she was diagnosed with wet macular degeneration in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. Macular degeneration is an eye disease, usually age ...

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