US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is admitted to hospital for treatment of a possible infection, the latest in a number of health scares for the 87-year-old liberal judge.
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to hospital for treatment of a possible infection.Justice Ginsburg had a procedure on Tuesday to clean a bile duct stent that was placed last August
She initially checked into hospital after experiencing fever and chills, and will stay to receive treatment for "a few days""The Justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment," court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement.
Justice Ginsburg, 87, was initially seen at a hospital in Washington DC on Monday night after experiencing a fever and chills. She had a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon to clean a bile duct stent that was placed last August.May she underwent nonsurgical treatment for a gallstone that had caused an infectionLast November, the judge was admitted to a hospital for two nights while suffering from a fever and chills, but she returned to work the day after being released.
In August of last year, she underwent radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer and in November 2018 she broke three ribs in a fall. Subsequent medical tests led to treatment for lung cancer that caused her to miss oral arguments in January 2019.This incident is the latest in a long line of health scares for the 87-year-old.
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