The cardiology team in the interventional radiology suite of the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana. This is not a photo of Odyssey's procedure. Odyssey, an Australian ...

Infants with various forms of congenital heart disease require a stable source of blood flow to their lungs in order to survive until a more definitive operation can be performed. In a recent study, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Blalock accepted her challenge to develop a surgical procedure to relieve that obstruction. First, with Thomas, he demonstrated that Taussig's hypothesis was correct in laboratory animals. Then he and ...