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Rumors Raise Concerns About Mandela's Health

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:14:14 CDT

Nelson Mandela is increasingly out of the public eye, raising questions about his health. The first black president of South Africa “recently decided to cut back his engagements even further and spend more time with his family,” the head of his foundation tells the...

Conan Out of Hospital, Returns to Show Monday

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:03:57 CDT

Conan O'Brien is home from the hospital after whacking his head during a Tonight Show stunt. "Conan is resting comfortably," said an NBC statement. "He is expected to return to work on Monday." Guest Teri Hatcher spilled details on the accident, which reportedly happened while the pair was filming a...

Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized After Faint Spell at Court

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:17:41 CDT

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has been battling pancreatic cancer, is in a Washington hospital tonight after feeling ill at work. In a statement, the court said that Ginsburg, 76, felt faint after a routine infusion, and that though subsequent tests and monitoring showed her “in stable health,...

Flu Plan Directs Docs to Take Sickest Off Life Support

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:41 CDT

Authorities planning for a severe flu outbreak are drawing up rules for life-saving ventilators that instruct doctors to take severely ill patients off life support and give the equipment to those with a better chance of survival. The plan, to be used in an outbreak comparable to the pandemic that...

Fall Sends Byrd to Hospital

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:27:00 CDT

Sen. Robert Byrd is at the hospital after a fall at his Northern Virginia home, the Washington Post reports. The 91-year-old West Virginia Democrat has been scarce at the Capitol recently after a previous hospitalization that ended in June. The longest-serving US senator ever “apparently stood up too fast this...

'Drunk' Hasselhoff Rushed to Hospital

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 2:58:07 CDT

An apparently drunken David Hasselhoff was rushed to a California hospital by ambulance last night after his worried daughter called her mom, reports TMZ. Haley Hasselhoff, 17, was staying with her dad at his Encino home. Her mom, Pamela Bach, arranged for paramedics to collect the inebriated actor. The former...

Keillor Faces Mortality as 'Nice 67 y.o. Man'

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:18:28 CDT

Garrison Keillor got “bitten in the butt” by mortality when he suffered a stroke earlier this month, realizing that he is now—as one doctor wrote in her report—a “nice 67 y.o. male,” he writes for Salon. “I never wanted to be a nice 67 y.o. man....

Garrison Keillor Hospitalized After Stroke

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 0:42:00 CDT

Garrison Keillor is in the hospital following a minor stroke, but he is in good condition and expects to start the new season of “A Prairie Home Companion” on time, the AP reports. “He is up and moving around, speaking sensibly, working on a laptop,” says a hospital spokesman. Keillor...

US Troops Stormed Afghan Hospital: Charity

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 8:32:43 CDT

A Swedish charity today accused American troops of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants. Soldiers were said to have forced their way into the charity's hospital without permission, violating the neutrality of a medical facility. The allegation...