It was 100 years ago this Saturday morning when Sir Frederick Banting awoke in the night from a restless sleep in the bedroom of his London, Ont. house and scribbled down on a piece of paper an idea ...

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Millions of people worldwide now suffer from diabetes, but until the 1920s there was no way to treat it. After years of experimenting on how to extract insulin from the pancreas (which is where the ...

Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the ...

SIR – I am writing to let people in the local area know about our plans for World Diabetes Day tomorrow. The day is held at this time every year to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting, the ...

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Canadian scientist Frederick Banting and his co-discoverers of insulin sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 in a deal that was finalized in 1923. What's False However, there is no ...

Regarding your editorial “Injecting Some Insulin Reality” (April 6): Although readers may be aware that the discoverer of insulin, the Canadian doctor Frederick Banting, received the Nobel Prize (and ...

In this column, we pit two worthy Web opponents against each other and judge each clip's respective punch. Last week, Noa Deane’s new-age antics fenced Conner Coffin’s Rincon-refined rail show. And ...