JERUSALEM, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Doctors say they will begin trying to bring Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon out of a medically induced coma on Monday.
Sharon remains critically ill but hospital director Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef said a brain scan revealed continued improvement in the 77-year-old prime minister's condition,
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Physicians believe they can start reducing anesthesia Monday morning,
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Mor-Yosef said the CT scan showed a reduction of fluid in Sharon's brain. Other tests indicated all other bodily functions were within normal parameters.
Sharon suffered a major stroke last week.
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert presided over the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, leaving the chair Sharon usually occupies empty, CNN said.
"We are hoping and wishing that the prime minister will recover, strengthen and return to presiding over the Israeli government and leading the state of Israel,
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