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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized overnight after experiencing extreme drowsiness but was later released from hospital, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.

One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said....

Ambulances and fire trucks raced to the home of the 91-year-old West Virginia Democrat, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history. He was taken to a hospital but has not been admitted.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, was in critical condition Friday at a Massachusetts hospital.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was discharged Monday from the hospital where he spent the night after collapsing while jogging.

54-year-old Sarkozy, in office since 2007, felt unwell while exercising and is undergoing tests.