Sidelined by pneumonia, Clinton vows quick return to campaign trail

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton sought to draw a line Monday under the health scare rocking her White House campaign, assuring supporters she will return to the fray this week as her team stated she has no medical ailments other than pneumonia.

Clinton was set to get a boost Tuesday, when President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail to support her bid to replace him.

Facing intensifying scrutiny about her health, the Democrat will also make new disclosures of medical records and data, as her team acknowledged it stumbled when it failed to transparently alert the press and public about Clinton's condition at the weekend.

"I felt dizzy and I did lose my balance for a minute, but once I got in (the van), once I could sit down, once I could cool off, once I had some water, I immediately started feeling better," Clinton told CNN, adding that she would be back on the campaign trail within the "next couple of days."

Clinton, 68, fell ill at a 9/11 memorial event in New York and was seen wobbling as she was helped into her vehicle, forcing her campaign to disclose she had been diagnosed with the acute respiratory infection.

The incident -- captured on amateur video -- gave her Republican rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation's highest office as the race heats up with eight weeks until Election Day.

The campaign said she "felt overheated," then released a statement by her personal doctor, Lisa Bardack, revealing that Clinton had been diagnosed with pneumonia Friday and was suffering from dehydration.

"There's no other undisclosed condition. The pneumonia is the extent of it," Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told MSNBC.

On CNN, Clinton initially said that she has "twice" gotten dehydrated and felt dizzy over the past five years, then said it had been "a few times."

Clinton was forced to scrap her California fundraising trip Monday and Tuesday. And the campaign acknowledged, just as Clinton was tweeting, that she will not attend her scheduled campaign event Wednesday in Nevada -- with Bill Clinton due to stump there on her behalf according to an aide to the former president.

In his first public comments since Clinton abruptly left Sunday's Ground Zero ceremony, an unusually restrained Trump offered her his wishes for a rapid recovery.

But he also suggested the former secretary of state's health issues were of longer standing than admitted.

"Something is going on but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and we'll be seeing her at the debate" in two weeks, the Republican told Fox News.

The unexpected turn of events has turned a conservative angle of attack into a serious line of questioning about Clinton's health and why it took two days to reveal the pneumonia diagnosis.

"Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?" asked David Axelrod, a former White House aide to Barack Obama, on Twitter.

Clinton admitted: "If we weren't fast enough, you know, I've talked to my staff, we, you know, take responsibility for that."

But she quickly insisted she has been far more transparent than Trump.

"The information is out there. You can't say the same thing about Donald Trump," she said.

"The American people deserve to know what he's up to and what he is hiding."

'Not the first time'

The episode has fueled fresh speculation and conspiracy theories on the internet, already awash with unsubstantiated rumors Clinton may have a brain tumor, Parkinson's or dementia.

The root of persistent claims about Clinton's health lies in 2012, toward the end of her tenure as secretary of state.

A stomach virus and dehydration prompted her to faint, causing what her doctor said was a concussion. Doctors said they found a blood clot on the brain. Clinton later received the all-clear.

On Monday, Fallon insisted that "there was nothing here in terms of anything that was caused by what happened in 2012."

He also said Clinton's team would be releasing medical records "in the next few days" in order to "further put to rest any lingering concerns about what you saw yesterday."

Trump also promised to release medical records once test results are back.

The former first lady has dismissed rumors about her health, but Trump has repeatedly raised doubts about Clinton's stamina and physical strength, and he questioned her campaign's account of the current episode.

"They say pneumonia on Friday, but she was coughing very, very badly a week ago and even before that if you remember, and this was not the first time," he told CNBC.

'Hard time keeping up'

Clinton spokesman Fallon said several senior Clinton collaborators at campaign headquarters in Brooklyn also fell ill in recent weeks, including campaign manager Robby Mook. But it was not known if that was the source of Clinton's infection.

Democrats including her running mate Tim Kaine rushed to her defense.

"Her energy staggers me," he told a crowd in Dayton, Ohio. "I have a hard time keeping up with her."

source: interaksyon.com

Nintendo chief who built gaming empire dies at 85

TOKYO — Hiroshi Yamauchi, credited with transforming Nintendo from a family-owned Japanese business into a global byword for video games, died Thursday from pneumonia. He was 85.

Yamauchi was just 22 when he took over the family business from his ailing grandfather and he went on to head the firm for over half a century.

It was during his tenure — in 1983 — that Nintendo released a games console called the “Family Computer”, which laid the foundations for the modern video-game industry.

Known abroad as the “Nintendo Entertainment System”, the early console became an international phenomenon with the company’s global success skyrocketing on the back of the legendary Super Mario series.

A string of successful game software titles followed while the popular Game Boy hand-held console was released to popular acclaim in 1989.

Yamauchi, whose death was reported by Japanese media, was born in the ancient capital of Kyoto into a family that operated a maker of Japanese and Western playing cards.

He was a 22-year-old student at Tokyo’s Waseda University when he took over the family business in 1949.

Yamauchi started Japan’s first mass production of plastic playing cards and took the company public.

After running Nintendo for 53 years, Yamauchi stepped aside in 2002 as he brought in current chief Satoru Iwata.

Yamauchi’s death comes just two days after Eiji Toyoda, a member of Toyota’s founding family who oversaw the automaker’s global ascent and helped drive a revolutionary production process, died at the age of 100.

source: interaksyon.com

Actor Subas Herrero dies of pneumonia at 69

Subas Herrero — an actor, comedian, and singer best known for his role in the TV gag show “Champoy” — died of pneumonia in Rochester, New York on Friday morning. He was 69 years old.

“Just heard the sad news that old friend and former talent I represented in the 80s Subas Herrero has passed away in New York,” talent manager Girlie Rodis posted on Facebook at 1PM on Friday.

Other friends and colleagues, including Noel Trinidad — Herrrero’s partner in “Champoy” — also confirmed the news of his passing.

Rodis said Herrero left behind his wife Maripaz and four daughters. Trinidad said in a report by gmanewsonline.com that his dear friend was also survived by a son.

Born on April 3, 1943 as Ricardo Wright Herrero, the actor first teamed up with Trinidad in stage productions during their college days at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Although he became famous as one-half of the “Champoy” comic duo in the 1980s, Herrero played numerous villain roles in action movies that starred the likes of Fernando Poe, Jr., Ramon Revilla Sr.., Joseph Estrada, and Rudy Fernandez.

His last acting credit was the 2000 international telemovie “Noriega: God’s Favorite”, about the life of Panamanian general Antonio Noriega.

Herrero retired from acting after suffering a stroke that year.

source: interaksyon.com

Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima dies aged 80

TOKYO – Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima, best known for the sexually explicit film “In the Realm of the Senses” and “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”, has died from pneumonia, aged 80.

The Hollywood Reporter said Oshima died on Tuesday in Fujisawa, south of Tokyo, where he had been living since retiring from making movies.

The British Film Institute described Oshima as one of the major directors of the new wave of Japanese cinema in the 1960s whose politically charged films contrasted starkly with the stylistic conservatism of classical Japanese filmmaking.

A law graduate, he began his filmmaking career at the age of 26 with the 1959 movie “A Town of Love and Hope”.

But his international notoriety was ensured in 1976 with “In the Realm of the Senses,” a graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire between a hotel owner and one of his maids in 1930s Japan.

The film contained scenes of unsimulated sexual activity and had to be registered as a French production to bypass Japanese censorship laws. Its uncensored version remains unavailable in Japan.

Oshima won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 for his film “Empire of Passion,” another erotic tale.

He teamed up with British actor/singer David Bowie on the 1983 film “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,” based on author Laurens van der Post’s experiences as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War Two.

Oshima suffered a stroke in 1996 but recovered enough to return briefly to filmmaking, making his final film “Taboo” in 1999, a movie about gay samurai.

source: interaksyon.com

Pneumonia ni Dolphy, bumalik

Masusi pa ring binabantayan ng mga duktor sa Makati Medical Center ang kalusugan ng Comedy King na si Dolphy matapos bumalik ang pneumonia nito.

Sa ulat ng GMA News 24 Oras nitong Martes, sinabing ito na ang ika-12 ulit na nagkaroon ng pneumonia si Dolphy sa loob ng nakalipas na buwan.

Matagal nang may sakit na chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) o sakit sa baga ang beteranong aktor.

Naging maayos naman umano ang isinagawang blood transfusion at dialysis kay Dolphy nitong Lunes.





Umaasa ang pamilya ni Dolphy na patuloy na bubuti ang kalusugan nito, lalo pa’t ipagdiriwang niya ngayong buwan (Hulyo 25) ang kanyang ika-84 taong kaarawan.

Patuloy naman umanong nakikipag-komunikasyon si Dolphy sa pamamagitan ng pagtaas ng kilay nito at iba pang facial gesture, at maging sa pagpisil ng kamay.

Hindi pa rin makapagsalita si Dolphy dahil sa tubo na inilagay sa kanyang leeg na tumutulong sa kanyang paghinga. - FRJ, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com