US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg released from Hospital

On Friday, the Supreme Court said that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from a hospital in New York City & has returned home.

The SC said Ginsburg, 87, is doing well, 2 days after undergoing a minimally invasive procedure on Wednesday to “revise a bile duct stent” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre. The stent had originally been placed last August, when Ginsburg was treated for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. 

The procedure is common & was done to minimize the risk of future infection, according to her doctors, the Court said in a statement.

The procedure follows another one earlier this month at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to clean out the stent. Ginsburg had gone to the hospital after experiencing fever & chills & was treated for a possible infection.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest Justice on the 9-member Court, announced on July 17 that she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer. The liberal justice, who has had four earlier bouts with cancer, said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver. 

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