Regis Philbin set for heart surgery
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Regis Philbin, the longtime U.S. daytime television personality and former host of the hit game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," said on Monday he will undergo open-heart surgery later this week.
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Former President Bill Clinton will have heart surgery early next week, his wife said on Friday. &quot;He will be having surgery early in the week,&quot; Sen. Hillary Clinton said after visiting the former president in hospital in New York.
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Former President Bill Clinton&#39;s impending coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the most common heart operation performed in the United States, with more than half a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year.
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NEW YORK - Bill Clinton was hospitalized with chest pains and shortness of breath Friday and will undergo heart bypass surgery in an operation that could sideline the former president at the height of the campaign for the White House.    An angiogram showed that Clinton, who turned 58 two weeks ago, had significant blockage in his heart arteries but did not suffer a heart attack, a doctor who performed the test told The Associated Press...
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Regis Philbin has come back to Notre Dame to bask in the pomp and pageantry of a Fighting Irish football weekend. He was the guest of honor at yesterday's football luncheon and last night's pep rally.
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Former President Bill Clinton's heart bypass, expected Monday, likely will be an ordinary replumbing of his ailing heart, not some new whiz-bang robotic or "keyhole" surgery, leading surgeons say. A source close to the former president who spoke on condition of anonymity said Clinton has told him the surgery was scheduled for Monday morning...
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Former President Bill Clinton has been moved to a New York hospital operating theatre for a heart bypass operation. Preparations began in an operating theatre at Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in upper Manhattan.
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Tenor Luciano Pavarotti underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer and is &quot;recovering well,&quot; his manager said Friday. The 70-year-old singer was preparing to leave New York last week to resume his farewell world concert tour in Britain when doctors discovered a malignant pancreatic mass, Terri Robson said from her London office.
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"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life." &#151; Luciano Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, in a statement on the opera superstar's death this week at age 71.
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Singer Russell Watson is to have  emergency surgery on Thursday to remove a new and aggressive  brain tumor, his manager said.
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Former President Bill Clinton will  have heart bypass surgery early next week after being rushed to  a top New York hospital on Friday complaining of chest pains  and shortness of breath.
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Former President Bill Clinton was on the fast track to a heart attack until quadruple-bypass heart surgery Monday gave him a second chance at life, his doctors revealed.
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The tenor of his times to opera buffs and a celebrity whose personality captivated even casual fans, Luciano Pavarotti was recovering Friday from surgery for pancreatic cancer &amp;#151; a kind of cancer often considered a death sentence.
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Tony Blair is to be admitted to hospital on Friday  for a procedure to correct a heart problem.
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At the end of Friday&#39;s telecast of &quot;Live With Regis and Kelly,&quot; a representative of Guinness World Records gave Philbin a plaque certifying him as the person with the most hours on television.
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Dr James Bennett said the 71-year-old soul star was &quot;resting comfortably&quot; after surgery at the Midtown Urology Surgical Centre in Atlanta, in the US.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, a survivor of four heart attacks, will have his cardiac defibrillator replaced later this year, his office said on Friday after he had his annual physical checkup.