Katie Couric reveals transient global amnesia diagnosis: What to know

Veteran journalist Katie Couric is opening up about a recent health scare after experiencing several hours of sudden memory loss, an episode doctors later diagnosed as transient global amnesia, a condition that causes temporary memory loss.

In a recent Substack post, Couric, 69, said she was briefly hospitalized after losing several hours of memory while attending the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on June 27.

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