US | Jack Kevorkian Jack Kevorkian Hospitalized for Kidney Trouble Enters hospital for second time in weeks By Matt Cantor Posted May 19, 2011 2:46 PM CDT Copied Dr. Jack Kevorkian arrives on the red carpet for the 68th annual Golden Globe awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California January 16, 2011. (Getty Images) Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is hospitalized with a kidney problem and pneumonia, the Detroit Free Press reports. It’s the second time in a matter of weeks that the kidney ailment has led to hospitalization. “Last night things flared up and we took him in,” his lawyer said, though today the right-to-die proponent, 82, who was imprisoned on a second-degree murder conviction in 1999, sounded “a little bit better.” Kevorkian has also grappled with heart trouble and hepatitis C. Read These Next 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. White House makes Hegseth put his polygraph away. The NFL's heaviest player told to slim down. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. Report an error