A statement released by the family of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford reports that Ford is currently in the hospital battling cancer. Ford’s family sent out the release shortly after a false rumor circulated on Reddit that Ford was dead.

This morning, a man opened fire in a Birmingham, Alabama's St. Vincent's Hospital. The unidentified gunman managed to shoot two hospital patients and wound an officer before a second officer shot and killed him. The three people who were shot are now recovering.

First-term Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk suffered a stroke this weekend and is now recovering from surgery. He had driven himself to the hospital "where doctors discovered a carotid artery dissection in the right side of his neck," according to his office. A neurosurgeon at the hospital says the stroke was on the right side of his brain, which "will affect his ability to move his left arm and possibly his left leg" and could result in "some facial paralysis." But it shouldn't affect his ability to speak or think.

Why would you need an ambulance to take you to the hospital, if you're already at the hospital? This is the question recently posed by Doreen Wallace, who injured herself during a visit to a hospital in Niagara Falls, Canada and was denied treatment until an ambulance was called. To the hospital. Where she already was, if that wasn't clear enough. Egads.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' astonishing survival gets even more astonishing: As soon as she could move again, her astronaut husband says, "she spent 10 minutes giving me a neck massage." Wait, seriously?

Continuing his never-ending quest to undermine traditional marriage, President Obama issued a memo ordering most hospitals to honor patients' visitation wishes, meaning that gay homos can now visit their sick and dying gay homo lovers. Next stop: bestiality. [Pic via]

Due to a hectic holiday filming schedule, Movieline reports that General Hospital has changed their "two takes per scene" rule down to one. Watch James Franco struggle to stay in character while minor things go wrong around him.

Bernie Mac's publicist spent much of last night dispelling rumors that the 50-year-old comedian has died. He was checked into a Chicago hospital with pneumonia Friday night, but she says he's still alive and responding well to treatment. A source close to Mac's family, however, describes his condition as "very, very critical."

"Doctors believe that Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts suffered a seizure at his home in Hyannis Port this morning, then a second seizure as he was being transported by helicopter from Cape Cod Hospital to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, according to an official briefed on the situation. His condition was unclear early this afternoon, as a special police security detail gathered at Mass General. Kennedy family members were called this morning and told to rush to Boston, according to sources."