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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of diabetes was almost a death sentence. Physicians could do little more than prescribe starvation diets to prolong life by a few months. The true cause of ...

On Wednesday, April 18, 1906, my wife’s maternal grandfather was in San Francisco when an extreme earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 struck the coast of Northern California. He was there with others ...

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 ...

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 ...