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, ...

BALTIMORE -- Not so long ago, the idea of performing heart surgery was medical blasphemy. After the Hippocratic oath, surgeons followed another dictum: "Don't touch the heart." Dr. Alfred Blalock, a ...

Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist (therefore, self-confident to the point of arrogance), leaves Vanderbilt for Johns Hopkins taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985).

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, ...