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A third recipient of the world's first self-contained artificial heart has suffered a stroke

Helene Snihur, a spokeswoman for the university, said the first sign of distress was a slowing of [Janet Reno]'s speech. Reno then told the audience that she needed to sit, Snihur said, and started moving from the lectern before falling to the floor. She was taken by ambulance to Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center and was admitted overnight for observation

Helene Snihur, a spokeswoman for the university, said the first sign of distress was a slowing of Ms. [Janet Reno]'s speech. Ms. Reno then told the audience that she needed to sit, Ms. Snihur said, and started moving from the lectern before falling to the floor. She was taken by ambulance to Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center and was admitted for observation overnight. The fainting was at least the third such episode for Ms. Reno, and all three occurred under similar circumstances, said one of her doctors, William J. Weiner of the Parkinson's Disease Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Recalling his brother's recent fainting, and a well-remembered episode of rapid heartbeat that once afflicted his father, Mr. [Jeb Bush] said Ms. Reno was in good company. ''The president of the United States, who I can guarantee can outrun anybody, he collapsed once,'' the governor said. ''My dad did it once, much to the embarrassment of my mother, at a state dinner with the prime minister of Japan.''