Famed Texas heart surgeon Denton Cooley died at 96

HOUSTON (AP) — Dr. Denton Cooley, a Texas surgeon who performed some of the earliest heart transplants and implanted the world’s first artificial heart, has died. Linden Emerson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, says Cooley died on Friday. He was 96. In 1969, Cooley implanted the world’s first artificial heart as […]