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US President Joe Biden reported to a hospital on Wednesday for his last yearly medical examination before November\u2019s election as scrutiny intensifies over the 81-year-old\u2019s fitness and mental acuity for a second term.<\/p>\n
The White House said a summary of the test results from the Walter Reed military medical facility outside Washington would be released later in the day.<\/p>\n
It will be closely followed for details about the health of America\u2019s oldest-ever leader.<\/p>\n
Biden, who is on course for a rematch<\/a> with 77-year-old former president Donald Trump in November\u2019s vote, took a short helicopter ride to the medical centre that is often used by US presidents.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to Walter Reed to get my physical,\u201d Biden said as he left the White House and reporters shouted questions at him.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s routine medical exam comes as voter concerns mount over the age of a leader who would be 86 at the end of a second term in office.<\/p>\n The issue was thrust further into the spotlight this month<\/a> when a brutal special counsel report portrayed Biden as elderly and forgetful, giving ammunition to his Republican rivals.<\/p>\n The investigation cleared him of illegally retaining classified documents in his home and garage \u2013 but said he would come across to a jury as a \u201cwell-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.\u201d<\/p>\n Biden launched a fiery counterattack in a press conference at the White House, saying his memory was \u201cfine\u201d and slamming the special counsel for claiming he could not remember when his son Beau died of cancer.<\/p>\n But this week Biden took a lighter-hearted tone while trying to deflect the issue back onto his septuagenarian nemesis Trump.<\/p>\n In an interview with late-night TV comic Seth Meyers on Monday, Biden said he was a better bet than \u201cthe other guy\u201d who was only a few years younger.<\/p>\n In last year\u2019s medical exam, Biden got a clean bill of health, although he did have a cancerous skin lesion removed from his chest.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,\u201d his doctor Kevin \u2018Connor, said following Biden\u2019s medical examination in 2023.<\/p>\n Trump routinely depicts Biden as pathetically old, decrepit and unfit for office, although Trump, who is 77, has also raised eyebrows with a series of verbal gaffes and memory issues.<\/p>\n He recently confused his rival Republican Nikki Haley with Democratic former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and said Viktor Orban was president of Turkey, rather than Hungary.<\/p>\n Late last year Trump released a note from his doctor declaring him to be in \u201cexcellent\u201d health but it was short on details and did not say what tests Trump had undergone when he had a physical in September 2023.<\/p>\n The letter said the results of his cognitive exams were \u201cexceptional\u201d but did not disclose basic information such as Trump\u2019s height and weight, cholesterol level or blood pressure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Joe Biden reported to a hospital on Wednesday for his last yearly medical examination before November\u2019s election as scrutiny intensifies over the 81-year-old\u2019s fitness and mental acuity for a second term. 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