USA TODAY Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupic reports that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized briefly overnight after an apparent adverse reaction to a sleeping aid combined with cold medication.

According to a statement from the court, Ginsburg had taken the drugs immediately after boarding an overnight flight bound for London.

Prior to takeoff, she "experienced extreme drowsiness causing her to fall from her seat," the statement says.

Ginsburg was taken to the Washington Hospital Center as a precaution and stayed overnight. She was found to be in stable health, the court says.
 
Biskupic notes that the 76-year-old justice had surgery for pancreatic cancer earlier this year and appears to have recovered. She has been on the bench for court cases and traveled widely since then.

In September, Ginsburg spent one night in the hospital after feeling lightheaded in her office after taking medicine for anemia, Biskupic adds.

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