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Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. At the University of Minnesota in 1954, he used controlled cross-circulation, temporarily connecting a patient to a healthy donor whose heart and lungs supported both circulations d...

Judah Folkman was an American pediatric surgeon and biomedical researcher who proposed that tumor growth depends on angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels. His 1971 hypothesis suggested that blocking this vascular supply could restrain cancers, creating a major field of experimental oncolo...

Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infants and children. At Boston Children's Hospital, he promoted primary repair of complex defects during the neonatal period instead of relying exclusively on staged palliative operat...

Francis Fontan was a French cardiac surgeon who developed an operation for patients born with a single effective pumping ventricle. First performed for tricuspid atresia and reported in 1971, the Fontan procedure directs systemic venous blood toward the pulmonary arteries without passage through a f...

Mark M. Ravitch was an American surgeon whose work encompassed pediatric, thoracic, and gastrointestinal surgery. After studying surgical stapling instruments developed in the Soviet Union, he helped introduce and adapt mechanical stapling techniques in the United States during the mid-20th century....

Cameron Haight was an American thoracic surgeon associated with the University of Michigan. In 1941, he performed the first successful primary repair of esophageal atresia with a tracheoesophageal fistula in a newborn, directly joining the separated portions of the esophagus and closing the abnormal...

James Tait Goodrich was an American pediatric neurosurgeon at Montefiore Medical Center and a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He became widely known for leading multidisciplinary operations to separate craniopagus twins, including children joined at the head whose share...

Pain Squad is a smartphone-based electronic pain diary developed by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for children and adolescents with cancer. The app uses a game structure in which users complete regular pain reports and progress through fictional squad ranks. It records det...

EndeavorRx is a digital therapeutic software developed by Akili Interactive for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In 2020, it became the first prescription video game to receive authorization from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The application i...

Pierre Fredet was a French surgeon associated with an early operative treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, a condition in which thickened pyloric muscle obstructs the passage of food from the stomach. In 1908, he described splitting the constricting muscle while preserving the unde...

Virginia Apgar was an American anesthesiologist whose work revolutionized newborn care. In 1952, she developed a quick, standardized assessment method—now known as the Apgar score—to evaluate newborns immediately after birth. This simple test quickly identifies infants needing intensive medical atte...

Re-Mission is a 2006 serious game developed by the non-profit organization HopeLab, specifically designed for adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer treatment. Players control a nanobot named Roxxi, who navigates the bodies of fictional cancer patients to destroy malignant cells, manage side...

Re-Mission 2 is a collection of browser-based mini-games developed by the nonprofit organization HopeLab and released in 2013. It serves as a follow-up to the original Re-Mission game, specifically designed to help adolescents and young adults manage their cancer treatments. Each mini-game tasks pla...

Joseph P. Vacanti is an American pediatric surgeon and researcher associated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is known for foundational work in tissue engineering, including research on biodegradable scaffolds designed to support cells as they form replacement tissu...