This summer Banting House National Historic Site is launching Canada's first interactive "talking statue," bringing the story of Sir Frederick Banting directly to visitors' ears. Starting now, guests ...

He awoke in the middle of the night in his yellow brick house in London a little more than a century ago, jotting down an idea that would change the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historical site known as the birthplace of insulin is marking World Diabetes Day by launching a virtual exhibit showcasing ...

Officials at London’s Banting House have rekindled the Flame of Hope. It was vandalized and snuffed out in June, but the flame is now burning once again thanks to a fundraising campaign that collected ...

One hundred years ago, on October 25, 1923, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to University of Toronto researchers Frederick Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of insulin.

At Adelaide Street and Queens Avenue sits a modest house that’s easily missed by motorists and pedestrians. If not for the Flame of Hope atop a marble cairn in the adjacent public square, most would ...

The incongruities seem startling, primarily because it's a tale involving the honour and memory of Canadian icon Sir Frederick Banting, who unselfishly gave diabetes sufferers the gift of insulin for ...