Barbara Bush Hospitalized in Houston

HOUSTON (AP) _ Former first lady Barbara Bush has been hospitalized in Houston, where she was undergoing what a family spokeswoman describes as routine tests.

Spokeswoman Jean Becker said Sunday that Bush had not been diagnosed with anything and doctors weren’t looking for anything specific.

Former President George H.W. Bush drove his wife to Methodist Hospital on Saturday morning. Becker said earlier that the former first lady hadn’t been feeling well for about a week, and doctors suggested she “undergo a battery of tests.”

Mrs. Bush underwent heart surgery in March 2009 for a severe narrowing of the main heart valve. She also was hospitalized in November 2008, when she underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer.

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