Amid Questions, Biden Releases Medical Records

Gaps in VP hopeful's history raise some lingering issues
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 20, 2008 2:57 PM CDT
Amid Questions, Biden Releases Medical Records
In this Oct. 19, 2008 file photo, Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., speaks during a campaign rally in Tacoma, Wash.   (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

As questions about the medical history of all four national candidates continue to circulate, Joe Biden released a cache of records today that indicate the 65-year-old VP hopeful is in good health, the AP reports. Like many men his age, Biden takes a cholesterol-lowering drug and has an enlarged prostate, but his records contain no information about recent brain scans. He underwent emergency surgery on a brain aneurysm in 1988.
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