Working at the Houston cardiology center he founded, Dr. Cooley, in 1969, implanted the first totally artificial heart. His mentor and partner, the renowned surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, felt ...

Houston, Texas - World-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr Michael DeBakey has died at age 99. One of the few heart surgeons to gain international recognition outside of medicine, he passed away of ...

The world-famous cardiovascular surgeon pioneered the artificial heart and bypass surgery and developed a host of devices to help heart patients. DeBakey died on Friday of natural causes. This is ...

Betsy Ross sewed liberty and a legendary doctor, Michael DeBakey, sewed life. (Please see "DR. MICHAEL DeBAKEY 1908-2008 / A heartfelt loss for Houston and medicine / Father of modern heart surgery ...

Heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died Friday in Houston at 99. Here, he performs surgery in Saudi Arabia in 1978. Colleagues remembered him as looking constantly into new methods and devices. HOUSTON ...

The father of modern heart surgery, Louisiana native Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, died last night in Houston. He was 99. The New York Times has a full obituary of the Lake Charles native and Tulane ...

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HOUSTON -- Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He ...

A Harvard Medical School professor testified Monday that Dr. Michael DeBakey made the right decision when he decided to operate on a Houston man's aneurysm. Alexander Overweg, DeBakey's former dentist ...

Dec. 31, 2006— -- First he made history as a surgeon. Then he made history as a patient. As he stepped out of the Methodist Hospital in Houston this past September, Dr. Michael DeBakey -- at 97 - ...