US: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in excellent health and fit to serve as US president, his doctor said yesterday.
Obama's personal physician said the 46-year-old senator from Illinois had no major medical complaints. "Senator Barack Obama is in overall good . . . health needed to maintain the resiliency required in the office of president," Mr Obama's doctor, David L Scheiner, said.
The campaign released the medical report one week after Mr Obama's Republican rival John McCain gave reporters access to 1,173 pages of health records.
Dr Scheiner said he has seen Mr Obama regularly for medical checkups during the past 21 years. Mr Obama has reported only minor problems such as upper respiratory infections, skin rashes and minor injuries.
"His family history is pertinent for his mother's death from ovarian cancer and grandfather who died of prostate cancer," Dr Scheiner said. Blood tests that screened Mr Obama for prostate cancer were "very good", he said. - (Reuters)