Dr. Vivien Thomas was born with the skill to mend broken hearts. Armed with the brain of a scientist and the hands of a craft carpenter, he stands today as one of the world’s most influential ...

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 ...

Partners of the Heart tells the remarkable but obscure story of Vivien Thomas, whose medical collaboration with surgeon Alfred Blalock opened new paths for healing at a time when most doors were ...

Adviser: Vivien Thomas helped Dr. Alfred Blalock and Dr. Helen Taussig develop the ‘blue baby’ operation. Vivien T. Thomas, who was born in New Iberia, La., and raised in Nashville ...

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 ...

“Something the Lord Made” is a splendid docudramatic retelling of the intertwined lives and careers of Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and his longtime technician and research ...

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 ...

While famous surgeons like Alfred Blalock and Christiaan Barnard are widely celebrated, the brilliant Black minds who supported their breakthroughs were left in the shadows. Vivien Thomas and Hamilton ...

Partners of the Heart tells the remarkable but obscure story of Vivien Thomas, whose medical collaboration with surgeon Alfred Blalock opened new paths for healing at a time when most doors were ...