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Michael Jackson arrived at a Los Angeles hospital by ambulance. According to reports, Jackson went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics in the ambulance administered CPR, TMZ reported Thursday afternoon. 

Original Charlie's AngelFarrah Fawcett is back in a Los Angeles hospital battling cancer, which has plagued her since 2006. Her longtime partner Ryan O'Neal reveals in a Barbara Walters interview that he asked Farrah to marry him.

Supermodel Janice Dickinson was temporarily removed from the Costa Rican set of NBC's sumer reality TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! this past weekend for undisclosed reasons. Dickinson is not the first cast member to make a trip to the emergency room. The Hills star, Heidi Montag was recently hospitalized and treated for a gastric ulcer prior to her and hubby Spencer Pratt leaving the show for good.

Emmy-winning Law and Order SVU star Mariska Hargitay was hospitalized for a partially collapsed lung Wednesday, the second time that's happened since January.

Tennis great and breast cancer survivor Martina Navratilova was forced to prematurely end her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro and is now recovering in a Nairobi, Kenya, hospital. The openly lesbian tennis champ was leading a team of 27 climbers to raise funds for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation charity. The sports superstar was helped down the mountain by porters and driven to the nearby Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center for treatment.

An Indiana hospital has made changes such as mandatory training on gender identity after an incident in which a transgender patient said she was mocked and denied treatment at the emergency room. Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie has been working with equality groups to improve services, and mistreated patient Erin Vaughn is happy with the developments.

The Stratton VA Medical Center's decision to hang a gay pride flag in honor of Pride month and to honor the 40th anniversary of the founding of the region's Gay and Lesbian Community Center has led to complaints.

Teresa Rowe's partner of 3 1/2 years, Kristin Orbin, who is epileptic, collapsed after the Equality March in Fresno, suffering three grand mal seizures. The volunteer emergency aid staff at the Meet in the Middle rally responded promptly and appropriately, but that is opposite of what happened in the ambulance and at the hospital. Lesbian and gay couples are still struggling to get proper care in medical emergencies.

Heathers’ star Winona Ryder was rushed to the hospital after an in-flight mystery illness on a plane bound for London forced the pilot to make a priority landing Wednesday. Now, The Daily Mail is reporting that Ryder, a notorious bad flyer, suffered a reaction to popping too many Xanax to help ease her in-flight anxiety.

Reality series personality Tila Tequila was rushed to the hospital on Feb. 29, for a brain aneurysm that was discovered after her roommate called 911 claiming she'd attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. The bisexual star of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila was released from the hospital on Monday and is recovering at home.

Rolling Hills CEO Richard Bangert said refusing Burke the ability to see her partner was a "human error. I will apologize and work with her directly," he said. "I take it very personally. This is not representative of the hospital."

On Thursday, President Obama ordered his Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius to issue new rules that would grant hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners. Rules will not take immediate effect but is a step in the right direction for equality.