High-school-educated Vivien Thomas spent decades as a research assistant to renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Alfred Blalock. Yet Thomas made up for his lack of pedigree with talent.

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 ...

Somehow, however, the soft-spoken Thomas found the resolve and the courage to bear up under the bigotry, and he and Blalock wound up creating a surgical technique to save the lives of “blue ...

Dr. Zuidema chose not to do postgraduate training under the legendary Dr. Alfred Blalock, co-creator of the 1944 “blue baby” operation in cardiac surgery, and instead went to Massachusetts ...

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 ...

Cooley continued at Hopkins as intern and resident, and assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock in the first blue-baby operation in November 1944, which corrected a deadly heart defect.

Dr. Alfred Blalock, a brash, egotistical Georgia native who in 1943 was named head of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, changed that. But he wasn’t alone.

Movie review-The first name of Dr. Alfred Blalock, one of the subjects of the documentary ‘Partners of the Heart,’ was stated incorrectly in the Screening Room column in Thursday’s Calendar ...

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 ...

Dr. Zuidema chose not to do postgraduate training under the legendary Dr. Alfred Blalock, co-creator of the 1944 “blue baby” operation in cardiac surgery, and instead went to Massachusetts ...