Old quotes resurrected this week tell an unsettling story of Michael DeBakey’s time as a surgeon trainee in Germany: One of the most admired doctors in history apparently performed forced ...

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, whose innovative heart and blood vessel operations made him one of the most influential doctors in the United States, died Friday night in Houston, where he lived. He was 99.

What may be medicine’s most famous feud — and certainly one of its longest-lived — has apparently ended. It involved two of the world’s greatest heart surgeons, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and Dr. Denton A ...

Although it may seem hard to believe today, there was a time when Houston was known less as an international health care hub than a backwater with a problem-plagued medical school. And then from ...

HOUSTON – In late afternoon last Dec. 31, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, then 97, was alone at home in his study when a sharp pain ripped through his upper chest and between his shoulder blades, then moved ...

Michael DeBakey performed his last operation aged 90 and continued to travel the world giving lectures until he was well into his 10th decade Credit: Photo: AP Michael DeBakey, who died on Friday aged ...

In a new blog post, a British medical historian raises the shocking possibility. Even more extraordinary, notes Thomas Morris, the source material is DeBakey himself. In U.S. National Library of ...

He is widely considered the 20th century's greatest surgeon, one of medicine's towering intellects, but Dr. Michael DeBakey's little-known passion these days is his health club. Five days a week, ...

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 ...