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 ...

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 ...

Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Morgan Freeman, the documentary details the story of two men practicing medicine throughout the middle of the twentieth century - Alfred Blalock and 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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) Alfred Blalock was born in Culloden, Georgia in 1899 to a prominent business family. After graduating from the University of Georgia, he studied medicine at Johns Hopkins ...

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