Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from the hospital after latest medical procedure - News Summed Up

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from the hospital after latest medical procedure


(CNN) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from a New York City hospital on Friday after her latest medical procedure, the court said. "She is home and doing well," a statement from the court's public information office read. Ginsburg had been hospitalized earlier this week for a nonsurgical procedure to replace a bile duct stent that was originally placed last year, the court said. It was her second trip to the hospital in July, and comes two weeks after the 87-year-old justice announced her cancer had returnedEarlier this month, Ginsburg was treated for a possible infection at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after having a fever and chills, undergoing an "endoscopic procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August," the court said at the time. Ginsburg also announced on July 17 -- after the Supreme Court had completed a blockbuster term -- that a scan in February had revealed lesions on her liver.


Source: CNN July 31, 2020 21:05 UTC



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