The Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation will be celebrating Banting’s birthday at the Banting Heritage Site in Alliston on Thursday, November 14.

World Diabetes Day, observed annually on November 14th, raises awareness about the escalating global diabetes epidemic. The ...

Michael Goldwater from Whitehaven was worried about children getting diabetes from energy drinks (Image: Newsquest) The day was established in 1991, when the number of people diagnosed with diabetes ...

November 14 was chosen for World Diabetes Day because it commemorates the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, one of the ...

In the tri-state area, Meritus Health offers diabetes and prediabetes classes to help folks manage the disease or prevent it.

Over the years, WDD has grown into a powerful global movement to combat diabetes-related stigma and challenges. Let's learn ...

It is marked every year on 14th November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. World Diabetes Day is celebrated worldwide by the over 230 ...

In 1921, Frederick Banting collaborated with Charles Best to remove the pancreatic glands of a dog, freeze it, grind it down, and administer it to the dog whose pancreas had been removed. 3 The dog’s ...

Diabetes is a disease wherein your blood sugar (glucose) levels are high. There are estimated 77 million people above the age ...

In an unprecedented collaboration, Pfizer worked with government scientists, the researchers such as Frederick Banting who had been working on the drug before the war, and a plethora of other ...

The first was insulin – Frederick Banting and colleagues managed to isolate insulin that could treat diabetes, up until that point a fatal condition. But it was only in collaboration with the ...