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 ...

Spencer received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins in 1947. Spencer applied to Dr. Alfred Blalock for a surgical internship at the Hopkins hospital. When she first mentioned her intention to him, ...

Andrea Kalin’s “Partners of the Heart,” which premieres tonight at 6:30 at the Museum of Tolerance in L.A., explores an extraordinary professional relationship between cardiac surgical pioneers Albert ...

The new HBO movie, "Something the Lord Made," focuses on a white doctor and his black lab assistant, and how they made history. Not so long ago, the idea of performing heart surgery was medical ...

Rapper/actor Mos Def has signed on to star in “Something the Lord Made,” a true story based on a black lab technician and a white surgeon who were pioneers in heart surgery.Mos Def will star as Vivien ...

Taussig persuaded Dr. Alfred Blalock, a vascular surgeon, to try and relieve the obstruction. With Vivien Thomas, Blalock proved Taussig's hypothesis, then worked with her to develop a procedure, ...