US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has been rushed to hospital in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, according to reports in the US media.
Senator Kennedy, 76, had the symptoms of a stroke, CNN reported.
Mr Kennedy, the brother of former US President John F Kennedy, is one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party.
A leading campaigner for reform, he has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for US president.
The Cape Cod Times said Mr Kennedy was taken by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital, and was then transferred Serbians go to polls in parliamentary elections ...
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Mr Kennedy is the second longest-serving member of the Senate.
He was first elected senator for Massachusetts in November 1962, to replace his brother, who had been elected president in 1960.
Since then he has been re-elected seven times.
(BBC)
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