November is International Diabetes Awareness Month.
He was born on the 14th November 1891 in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. One night, while lying in bed, several days away from his twenty-ninth birthday, on the 31st October 1920, he came up with the idea of insulin, for those who had diabetes.
Then, in 1922, the first successful test of this mediation was performed on a human being.
Mr. Banting was knighted in 1934, and he died in February 1941 in Newfoundland, Canada.
Presently, in his birth country, more than 9 million citizens live with prediabetes or diabetes, according to the Canadian Diabetes Association.
It is worth mentioning that one of the instrumental persons, to say the least, in the fight against this disease is Frederick Grant Banting.
He was born on the 14th November 1891 in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. One night, while lying in bed, several days away from his twenty-ninth birthday, on the 31st October 1920, he came up with the idea of insulin, for those who had diabetes.
Then, in 1922, the first successful test of this mediation was performed on a human being.
Mr. Banting was knighted in 1934, and he died in February 1941 in Newfoundland, Canada.
Presently, in his birth country, more than 9 million citizens live with prediabetes or diabetes, according to the Canadian Diabetes Association.
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