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 ...

At the height of segregation in the United States, an unlikely alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to some of the 20th century's pioneering medical breakthroughs, chief ...

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 ...

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 ...

Working together despite the strictures of Jim Crow racism, a white surgeon and a black lab technician make revolutionary strides in cardiac surgery techniques at Johns Hopkins Hospital in “Something ...

Nothing beats recognition when you've finished a project. Good job! Well done! Hearing those things is pretty awesome. But imagine working silently for years of your life while saving lives, and ...

(HealthDay News) — The role of mentorship is explored through the career of Alfred Blalock, MD, in a viewpoint piece published online December 17 in JAMA Surgery. Clark D. Kensinger, MD, from the ...

Mixing documentary with a smattering of docu-drama, "Partners of the Heart" is the powerful story of a young black man, Vivien Thomas, who, despite the Depression and the pervasive racism in the Jim ...