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 ...

Diabetes was a fatal disease before insulin was discovered on July 27, 1921. A century ago, people diagnosed with this metabolic disorder usually survived only a few years. Physicians had no way to ...

Here’s the kind of headline that has been appearing a lot recently, but it is more jarring — and worrisome — when it appears in the New England Journal of Medicine: “The U.S. Insulin Crisis — ...

When Frederick Banting's phone rang one morning in October 1923, it was the call that every scientist must dream of receiving. On the other end of the line, an excited friend asked Banting if he had ...

The discovery and advancement of insulin as a diabetes treatment can be traced back to the 19th century. Research into the development of insulin has driven scientists to take significant steps ...

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 ...

Coinciding with World Diabetes Day, Monday’s Google doodle is an homage to the Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting. Banting pioneered the usage of insulin to treat patients suffering from ...