The Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award is the American Diabetes Association's highest scientific award and honors an individual who has made significant, long-term contributions to the ...

Introduction What Causes Type 2 Diabetes? So Where Do All of the Problems Begin? Why Is the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Increasing so Rapidly, and What Can Be Done About it? References Why Is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The current approach to diabetes care is not working, according to Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD, and a novel approach to treating type 2 diabetes may be the key. During this year’s Banting Lecture at the ...

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. Diabetes is one of the first human diseases on record.

FREDERICK Banting is being celebrated today in a Google Doodle - but how much do you know about the Canadian medical scientist who co-discovered insulin? November 14 is Sir Frederick's 125th birthday ...

The Canadian doctor who won the Nobel prize for his role in discovering insulin was an accomplished artist as well as a remarkable scientist. Frederick Banting’s 1925 painting of the lab where he did ...