Photo: In this lab, Banting and Best carried out early experiments which led to the discovery of insulin. In 1920, Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting visited the University of Toronto to speak to the ...

In pre-insulin days, diabetics had two alternatives: eat well and die tomorrow, or live on a starvation diet and die by inches. Then one day in 1920 Frederick Banting, a young research M.D. at the ...

Here’s a site with a cause. Designed mostly with the aim of preserving the birthplace in Alliston, Ontario, of Frederick Grant Banting (the discoverer of insulin and Nobel Laureate in 1925), Banting ...

President Joe Biden misrepresented the history of insulin during his State of the Union address Tuesday. “[Insulin] has been around for over a hundred years. The guy who invented it didn’t even patent ...

Just before dark, one evening last week in Toronto, a big, camouflaged bomber swooped in from the east. From it was taken the mortal remains of Major Sir Frederick Grant Banting, world-famed ...

Charles Herbert Best was born in Maine, the son of a physician. He joined the Canadian artillery during World War I, and thus qualified for Canadian citizenship. Best was still a medical student at ...

SAYS INSULIN AND MEDICINE SAVED HER LIFE. BREANA: VICKY HAS LIVED MOST OF HER 66 YEARS OF LIFE WITH TYPE ONE DIABETES. SHE HAS RELIED ON INSULIN SINCE SHE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN DOCTORS USED IT TO ...

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: S.W. is supported by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) and the Cleghorn Fellowship in Schizophrenia Studies ...