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Russell L. Blaylock. Russell L. Blaylock (born November 15, 1945) is an author and a retired U.S. neurosurgeon . Blaylock was a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In 2013 he was a visiting professor in the biology department at Belhaven College. [1]
Blue baby syndrome, Atrial septostomy. Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease). [3] He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal ...
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1959) Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and ...
—Ruth Westheimer Westheimer joined the Haganah Jewish Zionist underground paramilitary organization (later, the Israel Defense Forces) in Jerusalem. Because of her diminutive height of 4 ft 7 in (1.40 m), she was trained as a scout and sniper. Of this experience, she said, "I never killed anybody, but I know how to throw hand grenades and shoot." [28] She became an ace sniper, and learned to ...
A review published in 2023 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease found that eating meat, particularly red and processed meat, and ultra-processed foods was a risk factor for Alzheimer's. On the ...
Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was a 20th-century American surgeon most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and for the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, a surgical procedure he developed together with surgical technician Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig to relieve the ...
Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt. The Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt ( BTT shunt ), [1] previously known as the Blalock-Taussig Shunt ( BT shunt ), [2] is a surgical procedure used to increase blood flow to the lungs in some forms of congenital heart disease [3] such as pulmonary atresia and tetralogy of Fallot, which are common causes of ...
Johns Hopkins Children's Center (JHCC) is a nationally ranked, pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland, adjacent to Johns Hopkins Hospital. The hospital has 196 pediatric beds [33] and is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. [34] The hospital is the flagship pediatric member of Johns ...