Hefner denies stroke claim, says he's OK
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Hugh Hefner says he's doing just fine. "I've never felt better," the 80-year-old Hefner told The Associated Press when asked Monday about a report he was in ill health.
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A delegation of U.S. Congress members said on Sunday they were told by senior Cuban government officials during a visit there that ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not dying, and does not have cancer.
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SANTIAGO, CHILE - Gen. Augusto Pinochet was listed in stable condition in hospital Saturday following a stroke he suffered earlier in the morning.
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Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) remains in critical but stable condition today after undergoing emergency brain surgery on Wednesday, but his doctors say he is making progress in his recovery, according to a statement released by the senator's office late this afternoon.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- FINA, the swimming&#39;s world governing body, has rejected protest from national federations of Britain and Austria over American Aaron Peirsol&#39;s reinstatement after he was disqualified in the 200m backstroke final at the ...
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Olympic time-trial champion Tyler Hamilton, captain of Switzerlandâs Phonak cycling team, has denied any wrongdoing after reportedly failing two doping tests in less than a month.
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A statement issued on behalf of a major Dublin hospital effectively confirms that a young man suspected of having variant CJD does have the incurable brain disease.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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Tottenham defender Dean Richards has been told it is very unlikely that he has a brain tumour after undergoing tests on an abnormality on the brain.
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Yesterday, Olympic gold medal cyclist Tyler Hamilton of Marblehead said he will clear his name at a January hearing in Colorado, and asked critics and supporters for patience over his positive test for blood doping last month. Hamilton faces a potential two-year ban from cycling after tests taken at the Spanish Vuelta race indicated he had received a blood transfusion ...
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PARIS Tyler Hamilton, the American bicycle racer who won an Olympic gold medal in the time trial last month in Athens, strongly denied Tuesday that he had used illegal performance-enhancing blood transfusions there and in the major race in Spain.
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World champion pairs skater Tatiana Totmianina sustained a concussion but no broken bones in a fall during the free skating program at Skate America, the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted the head of Russia&#39;s figure skating federation as saying
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BASEBALL George Steinbrenner says he's fit and feeling fine. And for those who don't believe him, the New York Yankees owner invites them to join him at the gym. ``No, I did not have a stroke. I am not ill. I work out daily," he said in a telephone interview last week from his office in Tampa. ``I'd like to ...
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Perennial teenager Dick Clark may miss his New Year&#39;s Eve ABC extravanganza for the first time in its 33 years. Clark, reported to be 75, suffered a minor stroke Monday and was hospitalized at an undiclosed location in Los Angeles.
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Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota suffered a possible stroke Wednesday and was taken to a Washington hospital, his office said.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet was conscious and mobile but remained hospitalized after suffering a stroke, the Army Hospital said Sunday, while the former dictator&#39;s family insisted
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Neurologists urge caution upon reports of a successful therapy.