Forbes November 25, 2021
November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and this Thanksgiving, I am immensely grateful for a medication that has profoundly changed the course of human history. The discovery of insulin in 1921 by Frederick Banting and Charles Best, researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T), remains one of the most significant advances in the history of medicine. This landmark discovery led to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 and established the city of Toronto as the vanguard of diabetes research and treatment. Prior to 1921, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence for the children and young adults who were diagnosed with it. The cause was unknown. Treatment? A “starvation diet” that improved survival for only a...
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