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Dr Michael DeBakey, the renowned cardiovascular surgeon who was recognized internationally for his accomplishments in the field of medicine, has died Friday night at Houston's Methodist Hospital. He was 99.

Doctor DeBakey, whose career includes innovations in cardiovascular surgery and the artificial heart, died on Friday night from natural causes, according to a joint statement issued early Saturday by Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

During his career, Dr. DeBakey treated a number of world leaders and international celebrities like Russian President Boris Yeltsin and movie actress Marlene Dietrich, and performed an estimated 60,000 operations.

"Dr. DeBakey’s reputation brought many people into this institution, and he treated them all: heads of state, entertainers, businessmen and presidents, as well as people with no titles and no means," said Ron Girotto, president of The Methodist Hospital System.

A glass of milk a day keeps heart diseases at bay! A new study has found this saying perfectly true and says that drinking a glass of toned milk per day can help your heart in staying away from various heart diseases including stroke

Researchers from various American and Norway universities has revealed that gulping down a glass of toned or low fat milk or consuming milk products daily can slash down your risk of kidney diseases and heart problems by thirty seven percent as compared to those who drank little or no low fat milk.

The scientists conducted the study on more than 5, 000 adults in the ages of 45 to 84 years by measuring the kidney health, associated with heart disease. The researchers tested albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) of the subject’s and also maintained a record of the eating patterns before study.