Giffords hospital photos released

Gabrielle Giffords' First Hospital Photos Released
Office of Gabrielle Giffords ​Last night Gabrielle Giffords' office released photos of the wounded Arizona Congresswoman in her Hospital room at the University Medical Center. The photos were reportedly taken on Sunday, January 9. In each, she holds the hand of her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly. Neither photo shows Giffords' face, due to the severity of her head injuries. As we learned yesterday, she's able to breathe on her own, and doctors believe she has a 101 percent chance of surviv...

Gabrielle Giffords Makes Progress (Photos)
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday night released new photographs of the congresswoman, who remains in critical condition after Saturday's Mass Shooting in Tucson, Ariz. The photos were taken Sunday in the congresswoman's room at University Medical Center. They show her husband Mark Kelly holding her hand. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband Mark Kelly holds her hand in her room at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. (Credit: Office...

Images from Giffords's Hospital Room
Since the attack in Tucson on Saturday, we haven't seen many images from inside the walls of the University Medical Center where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is recuperating. Today, Giffords' office released a few photos taken inside her Hospital room. While they do not reveal much about the congresswoman's status, they do show her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, by her side. See the photos below: ...

Photos: Rep. Giffords' Husband By Her Side, Holding Her Hand
What is this? These pictures tell the story quite well by themselves. They're from the Tucson Hospital room where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is being treated for the severe head injuries she received during Saturday's shooting rampage, which left 6 people were killed and 14 people (including Giffords) wounded. Astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords' husband, is with his wife. The photos were taken Sunday and released by Giffords' staff late Tuesday: Enlarge Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords/AP Mark...

Photos: Rep. Giffords' Husband By Her Side, Holding Her Hand
What is this? These pictures tell the story quite well by themselves. They're from the Tucson Hospital room where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is being treated for the severe head injuries she received during Saturday's shooting rampage, which left 6 people were killed and 14 people (including Giffords) wounded (13 from gunshots). Astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords' husband, is with his wife. The photos were taken Sunday and released by Giffords' staff late Tuesday: Enlarge Office of Rep. Gabriell...

Gabrielle Giffords first photos from her hospital room
Due to the overwhelming sympathetic response from the public following the near-fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson Saturday, her office tonight released two photos from her Hospital room in the University Medical Center. Due to the severity of her head injuries, neither picture shows the face of the congresswoman, who is breathing on her own now. Doctors issued a promising prognosis for her recovery on Tuesday.  The first new photo shows her left hand being held by her h...

Photos Of Gabrielle Giffords And Husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly
It’s been four days since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords suffered a bullet to the head during a shooting outside a Tucson, Arizona Safeway while meeting with her constituents, and she continues to make progress in her recovery. Now, the first photos of the Congresswoman since the weekend’s tragic shooting are out, showing her in her Hospital room, husband Astronaut Mark Kelly at her side. The photos show Giffords’ hand, wrapped in gauze, as it is being held by Kelly while he...

Gabrielle Giffords now breathing on her own, doctors say
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' condition is "the same as yesterday," physicians at the University of Arizona College of Medicine's University Medical Center in Tucson said in a Tuesday news conference, but she is now breathing on her own. "She is able to generate her own breaths," said Dr. Peter Lemole, the neurosurgeon who operated on her following the shooting on Saturday morning. Nonetheless, Giffords' doctors have left a breathing tube in place in an effort to prevent her from developing pneumon...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Opens Her Eyes As Pelosi, Gillibrand and Wasserman Schultz Joyously Watch
Rep. Gabby Giffords, who took a bullet to the brain in Saturday's Tucson rampage, opened her eyes for the first time Wednesday night at the urging of her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, as three close Democratic friends from the House -- Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kirsten Gillibrand -- looked on in joyous disbelief. "Gabby, open your eyes, open your eyes," Gillibrand quoted Kelly in a phone call to CNN. She seemed to struggle momentarily but then managed t...

Photos of Giffords released
The first photos of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) since she was critically injured in a Shooting Spree last weekend were released late Tuesday. Giffords's office released two photos of her husband Mark Kelly holding her hand in her room at the University Medical Center in Tucson. The photos were taken on Sunday, a day after Jared Lee Loughner, 22, allegedly opened fire on a crowd at Giffords's "Congress on Your Corner" event outside a Supermarket. The congresswoman, 40, was shot in the h...

Photos Show Husband Of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords By Her Side At Hospital
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Tuesday night released two photos taken inside the Hospital room where the Arizona Democrat is recovering after she was shot in the head on Saturday. U.S. Navy Captain Mark Kelly, Giffords's husband, is seen by her side and holding her hand in the two photographs, which her office said were taken in University Medical Center on Sunday, Jan. 9. "Thank you for your outpouring of support for all of the Victims of this senseless tragedy," the office wrote i...

'Gabby Opened Her Eyes'
President Obama says that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has opened her eyes for the first time since being shot through the head on Saturday. In his remarks at a memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., for the Victims of last Saturday's shooting rampage, Obama hit an emotional high point when he told of Giffords' opening her eyes for the first time not long after his visit to her bedside. "Gabby opened her eyes, so I can tell you: She knows we are here, she knows we love her, and she knows that we are root...

Gunman's family sorry for 'heinous' US shooting
The family of a gunman who killed six people while allegedly trying to assassinate a US lawmaker issued an anguished Apology, saying they cannot understand their son's "heinous" act. The parents of Jared Loughner, 22, broke their silence as doctors said Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head in the weekend attack in Tucson, continued to improve. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don't understand ...

Shot US politician can now breathe on her own
Gabrielle Giffords with her husband, NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly. Photo: AP The Arizona politician shot in the head in an attack that killed six in Tucson remains in critical condition but is now capable of breathing on her own, doctors said. "She's holding her own," said Michael Lemole, the head neurosurgeon who operated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, adding on Tuesday that she was still responding to simple commands, a key sign for her recovery prospects. "In fact, she's able to generate h...

Gunman's family sorry for 'heinous' US shooting
The family of a gunman who killed six people while allegedly trying to assassinate a US lawmaker issued an anguished Apology, saying they cannot understand their son's "heinous" act. The parents of Jared Loughner, 22, broke their silence as doctors said Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head in the weekend attack in Tucson, continued to improve. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don't understand wh...

Alleged gunmans family breaks silence
Stumble This! The US lawmaker shot in the head in an attack killing six in Tucson can now breathe unaided, doctors said Tuesday as the gunman's family broke their silence to say they were "so very sorry." Surgeons gave an upbeat outlook for Representative Gabrielle Giffords' condition, as President Barack Obama prepared to travel to Arizona and a harrowing account emerged about the youngest Victim in Saturday's Shooting Spree. "She's holding her own," said Mic...

"We Will Heal"
TUCSON--They started lining up in the early morning, and by mid-afternoon, more than 20,000 Tucsonans had queued up under cloudless skies to get into the University of Arizona's McKale Center to pay tribute to the fallen. The unruly line snaked for blocks through the downtown Tucson campus, a motley crowd of Students, skaters, a sizable Hispanic contingent, professionals in business casual and parents shepherding their kids. Many wore Navy blue T-shirts inscribed with "Together We Thrive: Tucson...

Obama Says Polarized Americans Should Be Talking With Each Other in a Way That Heals
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other “in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.” Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: “She knows we’re here, and she knows we love her.&...

Office of Gabrielle Giffords Release First Photos From Her Hospital Room
Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford's office released the first photos from her Hospital room at the University of Arizona Medical Center. The pictures show her husband, Mark Kelly, holding her hand. ...

Congresswoman Giffords' office releases first photos from hospital room
Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford's office released the first photos from her Hospital room a the University of Arizona Medical Center.  Both pictures do not show Congresswoman Gifford's face for good reason.  Instead, the pictures show her husband, Mark Kelly, holding her hand as she fights to recover.  The photos can be seen in the slideshow to the left.  I have included other pictures from the story after the Hospital photos. Doctors continue to be very optimistic about Giff...

Hospital Releases First Photos of Rep. Giffords
Los Angeles Times reports: Due to the overwhelming sympathetic response from the public following the near-fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson on Saturday, her office tonight released two photos from her Hospital room in the University Medical Center. Due to the severity of her head injuries, neither picture shows the face of the congresswoman, who is breathing on her own now. Doctors issued a promising prognosis for her recovery on Tuesday. ...

Police Visited Loughners Home Before Rampage
TUCSON - The police were sent to the home where Jared L. Loughner lived with his family on more than one occasion before the attack here on Saturday that left a congresswoman fighting for her life and six others dead, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... W...

Obama: Don't turn on each other
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other "in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: "She knows we're here, and she knows we love her." In a memorably dramatic...

Obama: Giffords opens her eyes
TUCSON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has opened her eyes for the first time since she was critically wounded in Tucson, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. Addressing a memorial service for six people killed in the shooting Saturday, Obama said he had visited Giffords in the Hospital -- where she was still listed in critical condition -- and told the audience, "Gabby opened her eyes for the first time." GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Earlier i...

NASA: Space shuttle cracking finally understood
NASA says it finally knows what caused the cracking in Space Shuttle Discovery's fuel tank. Discovery's final voyage has been on hold since November. If the remaining repairs go well, the shuttle could fly to the space station as early as Feb. 24. Shuttle program manager John Shannon said Tuesday a combination of inferior material and assembly issues is to blame. Potentially dangerous cracks occurred in five aluminum alloy struts in the center of the tank. Those have been patched. Technicians wi...