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Discovery of BLood Types
Karl Landsteiner showed that people have different types of blood. -
Blood Banks
Charles Drew showed that emergency transfusions could successfully be done with plasma if whole blood was not available. -
Treatment for "Blue Babies"
Helen Taussig identified the heart flaw that causes the skin of some newborn babies to be a bluish color. -
First Heart Transplant
Christiaan Barnard performed the first tranplant of a human heart. -
Artificial Heart
Robert Jarvik implanted the first artificial heart into a patient. -
Laser Beam Unclogs Arteries
The United States government approved a device that uses a laser to burn away material causing blockage in arteries.
