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Health + Wellness: Helen B. Taussig

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The Life of Helen B Tausig

Helen brooke tausig was born on may 20 fourth 18 98 in massachusetts. She is perhaps best known for her work on blue baby cindrum, an often fatal condition that causes a new born skin to look blue due to lack of oxygen to the heart. Using a new x ray technique, she discovered babies suffering from the cindrum had an underdeveloped artery connecting the heart to the lungs and a leaking heart wall. Her ability to detect the rhythms of the heart by touch gave rise to some of her later innovations in petiatric cartiology.

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