{"id":25725,"date":"2019-12-11T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25725"},"modified":"2024-07-16T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T22:39:40","slug":"common-diabetes-drug-metformin-is-being-investigated-in-the-us-and-europe-over-fears-it-may-contain-a-cancer-causing-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25725","title":{"rendered":"Common diabetes drug metformin is being investigated in the US and Europe over fears it may contain a cancer-causing chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Metformin_Packets.jpg\" alt=\"Metformin_Packets\" class=\"wp-image-25726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Metformin_Packets.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Metformin_Packets-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A diabetes drug taken by millions of people could be contaminated with a chemical linked to cancer, health officials fear.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diabetes drug taken by millions of people could be contaminated with a chemical linked to cancer, health officials fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56488,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions\/56488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}