By Stephanie Vosk It will be important for doctors to determine in the days ahead what caused US Sen. Edward Kennedy to suffer a seizure early yesterday.

By JOHN M. BRODER and JEFF ZELENY SUSAN WALSH / - Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who was hospitalized Saturday, listens at a Washington, D.C., hearing earlier this month.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy, the lone surviving son in a famed political family, was airlifted Saturday from Hyannis, Mass., to Boston, where he was hospitalized after apparently suffering a seizure.
al in nearby Hyannis. After a discussion with his doctors in Boston, the senator was flown by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was soon joined by his wife, Victoria, his three children and niece Caroline Kennedy.

Edward Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and the surviving patriarch of American political royalty, suffered a seizure Saturday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and was rushed by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hospital officials said.
The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was awake and joking with his family by late afternoon, according to a source close to the Kennedy family who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
derangements of bloodstream chemicals. Such seizures are not rare.

By GLEN JOHNSON AP BOSTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy, the lone surviving son in a famed political family, suffered a seizure at his Cape Cod home Saturday morning but was recovering well enough by afternoon to watch a Red Sox game from his hospital room.
The 76-year-old Kennedy did not suffer a stroke, as was first feared, and doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital said he is not in any immediate danger.

By Peter Schworm and Matt Viser, Globe Staff Senator Edward M. Kennedy was rushed from his Hyannisport home to Massachusetts General Hospital this morning

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON, May 17 (Reuters) - US Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading Democrat and patriarch of a prominent US political dynasty,

By CARLA BARANAUCKAS Senator Edward M. Kennedy was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after becoming ill at his home in Hyannisport, Mass.