Helen Brooke Taussig
1898-1986
American Physician
Helen Brooke Taussig is recognized as the founder of pediatric cardiology. Along with Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), she devised a procedure for the trea...
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Physician Helen Brooke Taussig discovered a surgical procedure for treating "blue babies." She proved that "blue babies" died of insufficient circulation rather than cardiac arrest, as had been previo...
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Helen Taussig was the founder of pediatric cardiology and one of the first outstanding women in American medicine. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to an academic family, Taussig's father was a Harva...
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Helen Taussig was the founder of pediatric cardiology and one of the first outstanding women in American medicine. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to an academic family, Taussig's father was a Harva...
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Helen Brooke Taussig
Helen Brooke Taussig
Helen Brooke Taussig
Helen Brooke Taussig