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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Dr. George D. Zuidema, whose years as surgeon-in-chief and head of the department of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have been described as transformative, died Monday of a blood disorder ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dr. George D. Zuidema, whose years as professor and director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief have been described as transformative, died Monday of a blood ...