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Weekly Dose: metformin, the diabetes drug developed from French lilac

  • Written by: Merlin Thomas, Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
imageMetformin was originally developed from natural compounds found in the plant known as French lilac.Vlad Proklov/Flickr, CC BY

Metformin is the most widely used drug to treat type 2 diabetes globally. In Australia, approximately two-thirds of patients with type 2 diabetes are prescribed metformin, either alone or in combination with other pills, or...

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