A cheap, widely available diabetes drug may soon pull double duty as a colon cancer-fighting supplement, according to new research that’s turning heads in the medical world. Metformin, a staple ...

A less toxic and more convenient treatment for advanced colon cancer can be delivered in tablet form, according to a new University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center study. Researchers said the ...

Microspheres that sense gastrointestinal disease are suspended in solution (L), and then attracted to the side of a test tube by a magnet (R) so researchers can easily retrieve them from biological ...