Banting and Ceri Richards, another artist involved in surrealism in the thirties, painted billboards drawing attention to starving children in Republican Spain.

Deniz Fikertoglu, of Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), delivers the Featured Banting Award Talk with her presentation titled "Mental Health Service Use in the Canadian Armed Forces: The Past, The Present, and the Future."

While patients with diabetes have to inject insulin and watch their blood sugar levels many times in a day, Banting's discovery has temporarily found a way to cure the disease.

Set over three floors in the Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ONRamp will provide a collaborative space for University of Toronto students and graduates, and to new young companies from other Ontario universities and colleges.

It was Banting who suggested that Canada's vast open spaces would be ideal to undertake large-scale field trials, which led to Suffield, northwest of Medicine Hat, Alta, becoming a centre for chemical and biological field testing.

So Banting and I adopted a more cautious metaphor--the "fading" of the welfare state.

Robert Zacharias is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Waterloo and Visiting Scholar with the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

Banting and Myles assemble twenty eminent Canadian academics--known for their social policy and tax expertise--to reflect on these issues through a peer-reviewed scholarly volume.

Em outros paises, a doenca e descrita em suinos das racas Large White (McGAVIN et al., 1962) e Landrace (PLETCHER & BANTING, 1983), enquanto, nos casos relatados, a doenca ocorreu em suinos sem raca definida.

1922: Insulin, the treatment for diabetes, was patented by Frederick Banting. 1930: Germany's Max Schmeling won the world heavyweight boxing title against Jack Sharkey in New York on a disqualification - the only man to win the title in such a manner.

Insulin was discovered in Toronto in the summer of 1921 by Dr Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Best in a search for a cure for diabetes.

What life-saving hormone extract was identified and purified for use by John Macleod, Frederick Banting and Charles Best?

Banting thought that ligating the pancreatic ducts of the source animal would allow the acinar cells to degenerate; otherwise, pancreatic enzymes might digest the anti-diabetic substance if it was present in the pancreatic extract.

Pro: Michael Bliss, Canada's leading medical historian, is the author of The Discovery of Insulin and biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing.

The first best-selling diet guide in the US, for example, was William Banting's A Letter on Corpulence of 1863 (which went through 12 editions by 1900).