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As a result of her efforts thalidomide was banned in the United States. Her father was Harvard economist Frank W. Johns Hopkins University named the "Helen B.

This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Taussig shunt. Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24 1898 – May 20 1986) was an American cardiologist working in Baltimore and Boston who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. The procedure was developed by Dr.