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Since 1960, all prescriptions filled at Johns Hopkins Hospital pharmacy have automatically included the generic (chemical) name of the drug. This is better than a trade name, says Hopkins' famed Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, because her investigation of thalidomide deformities showed that the drug had been sold under at least 53 trade names, and possibly as many...
...narrowed section of the aorta-a crippling and potentially fatal defect with which some babies are born. Baltimore's Dr. Al fred Blalock opened the field for surgery directly on a malformed heart with the first blue-baby operation, which he devised in 1944 with Pediatrician Helen Taussig...
...McCoy & Co., Worcester; Dean Monro; George G. Mulligan '62; Paul A. Newsome '29, President, Newsome & Co., Inc., Boston; Daniel I. Peck '52, Certified Public Accountant, Brookline; Harold Rosenwald '27, LL.B. '20, Attorney, Boston; Dean von Stade; Herbert Stewart, M.B.A. '40, Lecturer on Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Lynn M. Taussig '64; and Dean Watson...
...suffer from a set of four inborn defects in the heart and arteries, known as Fallot's tetralogy. The effect is to recirculate much blood from which oxygen has been naturally removed in the veins, and send only part of it to the lungs for re-oxygenation. The Taussig-Blalock operation, devised years before open-heart surgery with a heart-lung machine became possible, is a compromise: it consists of purposely creating a fifth defect-a connection from the aorta to the pulmonary artery-to shunt more blood to the lungs and thus overcome some of the effects...
...heart itself. But a major problem still confronting the blue babies' doctors is to decide which operation is best suited for each patient, especially since the more drastic operation carries a higher risk. At the Hopkins, Dr. Blalock and his associates still decide to rely on the Taussig or a similar operation about once a week...