A commonly prescribed drug for diabetes, metformin, has a new side hustle. Besides helping to manage blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes, metformin can also fight off a type of cell that builds up in the ...

You might not think of diabetes when you think of muscle function. But a common diabetes drug that regulates blood sugar can also prevent muscle atrophy and muscular fibrosis -- which can help the ...

A common drug used to treat diabetes may help the elderly bounce back faster from muscle injury or illness. Researchers at University of Utah Health discovered that Metformin can prevent muscle ...

As we age our muscles lose the ability to rapidly rebuild themselves, but new research has scientists claiming they can reverse this particularly detrimental quirk of the human aging process. A recent ...

The therapy, branded as Itvisma, was approved for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy patients of age two years and ...

Using genetic approaches, researchers have demonstrated how a certain protein is involved in skeletal muscle growth. The findings open new avenues to develop drug targets for neuromuscular diseases ...

Panelists discuss how the current spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatment landscape includes 3 options: gene therapy (onasemnogene abeparvovec [Zolgensma]) for younger patients and 2 splice modifiers ...

The FDA has approved Itvisma for the treatment of children two years and older, teens and adults living with spinal muscular ...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Novartis' gene therapy for a type of rare muscle disorder, the drugmaker said ...