Dr. Michael DeBakey dead at 99

Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 02:21 in Health & Medicine

HOUSTON (AP) -- 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, died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, officials announced. He was 99....

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