Common diabetes drug can reduce the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and obesity

Common diabetes drug could spark knee-pain breakthrough, study finds

A new study has uncovered another benefit of one of the country's most commonly prescribed medications for diabetes - joint pain relief.More than six million scripts for metformin are written each year, mainly to treat type 2 diabetes.Researchers at Monash University led a study to see whether the safe and inexpensive tablets could be repurposed to manage pain for those with knee arthritis.READ MORE: Man arrested after teenager fatally shot at N…

Common diabetes drug could spark knee pain breakthrough

A new study has uncovered another benefit of one of the country's most commonly prescribed medications for diabetes - joint pain relief.

Repurposed diabetes drug can reduce pain for those with knee arthritis and overweight or obesity, clinical trial shows

A common diabetes drug can reduce the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, possibly delaying the need for knee replacements, Monash University-led research has found.

Common diabetes drug can reduce the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and obesity

A common diabetes drug can reduce the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, possibly delaying the need for knee replacements, Monash University-led research has found.

This Common, Safe Drug Relieved Osteoarthritis Pain in Randomized Trial

(MedPage Today) -- The diabetes drug metformin provided overweight/obese patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee with significantly greater pain relief than did placebo in a small randomized trial, researchers said. After 6 months of treatment...

Mechanisms and Challenges of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis

In this editorial, we comment on the recent article by Xiao et al, focusing on their investigation into whether the therapeutic efficacy of serum-free human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) differs from that of serum-containing