A mass of Goat's Rue (also known as French Lilac), the medicinal herb that led to metformin. Source: Caroline Eastwood/Alamy Stock Photo. Used with permission. French lilac is a perennial plant with ...

Pamela Goodwin has received hundreds of emails from patients asking if they should take a cheap, readily available drug, metformin, to treat their cancer. It’s a fair question: Metformin, commonly ...

One of the most interesting drugs on pharmacy shelves is an old diabetes medication called metformin (Glucophage). In medieval Europe, healers used French lilac (Galega officinalis) to treat a range ...