Uveitis, a rare eye infection that has no complete cure so far is one of the rare but dangerous eye disease. The symptoms are inflamation in eyes leading to eye pain. Now there is a good news for the people suffering from it.
On May 7, 2012 a medical journal investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science publishe that "Metformin inhibits the process that causes that inflammation". The scientists believe that it has a good chance of being used as an anti-uveitis drug soon, since Metformin is already used as a treatment for Diabetis.