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Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. [1]
Coca-Cola hires Paula Abdul to represent them, while Pepsi hires Michael Jackson. Jackson helps Pepsi with public relations and advertising, even suggesting that the company use his song "Billie Jean" as their jingle. While filming a Pepsi commercial, Jackson meets child actor James Safechuck, who later alleges that Jackson had sexually abused ...
Heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008), a faculty member and later Chancellor Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine, performed the first removal of a carotid artery blockage (1950); the first aorto-coronary bypass surgery (1964); the first use of a ventricular assist device to pump blood and support a diseased heart (1966); and some of the first U.S. heart transplants (1968 and 1969 ...
Formally, the MASH unit was conceived by Michael E. DeBakey and other surgical consultants as the "mobile army surgical hospital". Col. Harry A. Ferguson, the executive officer of the Tokyo Army Hospital, also aided in the establishment of the MASH program. It was an alternative to the random individual systems of portable surgical hospitals ...
DeBakey was first to perform cardiopulmonary bypass to repair the ascending aorta, using antegrade perfusion of the brachiocephalic artery. By the mid-1960s, at Baylor College of Medicine , DeBakey’s group began performing surgery on thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA), which presented formidable surgical challenges, often fraught with ...
Bicycling, whether outdoors or in a spinning class, may help prevent knee arthritis and pain. People who biked at any point in their lives were 17% less likely to develop knee pain and 21% less ...
Cooley and the heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey had a professional rivalry that lasted more than 40 years; they made amends in a public rapprochement in 2007, when DeBakey was 99 years old and Cooley was 87. [6] [23] [24] Cooley died on November 18, 2016, at the age of 96. [1] [25]
A look at how events unfolded in Ferguson, Mo., in the days and weeks after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot him, has not been indicted by a grand jury.