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 ...

I t takes a surgeon to understand one. Dr. Craig A. Miller, a vascular surgeon at Riverside Methodist Hospital/Ohio Health in Columbus, used his professional knowledge in writing the first biography ...

_ 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.

The world of cardiology still holds a spot front and center in the realm of medical technology, so it only seems fitting to celebrate the birth of Michael Ellis DeBakey, MD, whose birth on Sept. 7, ...

From his operating room skills to his unparalleled work ethic to his prowess with a pool cue, famed heart surgeon Michael DeBakey was remembered Wednesday as a Renaissance man who changed the world.

When Dr. Michael DeBakey passed away over the weekend, the news was treated with one of those collective, “Oh, by the way” attitudes by many folks in the national media. In one way that’s ...

Belatedly continuing a tradition led by Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley and "Red" Duke, prominent Houston cardiologist Dr. Ward Casscells joined the U.S. Army Reserves on Monday. In a ceremony at the ...