Read profiles of Blalock, Thomas, Helen Taussig, and the medical professionals who followed in their footsteps.

The year was 1925, and Alfred Blalock was already a failure at age 26. The born-and-raised Georgian earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in 1918, then a medical doctorate from ...

In the 18 years since Johns Hopkins’ famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock electrified the medical world by turning “blue babies” into pink and active youngsters, at least 10,000 such invalids since birth have ...

Few developments in surgery have had such public appeal as the “blue-baby” operation, first performed at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1944. Children born with malformed hearts look blue ...

This is part of a series called Georgia Groundbreakers, that celebrates innovative and visionary faculty, students, alumni and leaders throughout the history of the University of Georgia — and their ...

Dr. Vivien Thomas was born with the skill to mend broken hearts. Armed with the brain of a scientist and the hands of a craft carpenter, he stands today as one of the world’s most influential cardiac ...

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While names like Alfred Blalock and Christiaan Barnard dominate medical history, the Black pioneers who made their work possible were often left uncredited. This video tells the stories of Vivien ...

Rapper Mos Def has been tapped to star with Alan Rickman in "Something the Lord Made," an original movie for HBO about the true story of heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, a… By ...

The medical discoveries of Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas had an enormous impact on the field of heart surgery. Their achievements went far beyond the stunning success of the blue baby operation, ...

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