This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex hormonal condition affecting an estimated eight to 20 percent of women of reproductive ...

Chances are, if you’ve been diagnosed with PCOS, someone will have recommended Metformin to you. They certainly did in my case and, because I was pigheaded and didn’t quite understand what the ...

Oral contraceptives combined with metformin are associated with improvements in health-related quality-of-life measures.

Children born to mothers with polycystic ovary syndrome who used metformin during their pregnancies are at increased risk for overweight or obesity at age 4 years, according to findings published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with polycystic ovary syndrome and overweight or obesity who underwent fertility treatment had a higher ...

Both metformin and exercise can prevent prediabetes from progressing to diabetes. But is it beneficial to combine these ...

New research from the Karolinska Institutet has uncovered a surprising new role for metformin in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Beyond managing blood sugar, the diabetes drug appears to ...

Metformin hydrochloride is type of medicine called a biguanide. Metformin is used when diet alone has failed to fully control blood sugar. It may be used on its own, in combination with other oral ...

A recent consensus workshop did not include metformin in the recommended therapeutic approach for the treatment of infertility in women with PCOS. However, encouraging findings by Morin-Papunen et al.