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

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 ...

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 was 99.

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a Louisiana-born, Tulane-trained surgeon whose ceaseless research and demanding nature allowed him to transform a major branch of modern medicine, died Friday in Houston. He ...

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the Louisiana-born son of Lebanese immigrants who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99 ...

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 ...

Author Thomas Thompson once characterized Houston circa 1945 as a city where medicine of the most mediocre sort was practiced, a city with a third-rate medical school, no heritage of scholarly ...