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Common Type 2 Diabetes Drug May Not Be Effective

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Metformin is currently the standard treatment for young people with type 2 diabetes.

But new research finds it is not effective for many of those patients.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Metformin had a much higher failure rate among kids ages 10 to 17 compared to adults treated with the drug.

Results were much better when Metformin was combined with another diabetes drug.