Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday spoke to her staff and aides by phone as she undergoes treatment for a rare blood clot close to her brain, a top US official said.

“She has been talking to her staff, including today. She’s been quite active on the phone with all of us,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists, refusing to give further updates on Clinton’s condition.

America’s top diplomat was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday after a routine scan revealed the clot in a vein behind her right ear in the space between her skull and her brain.

Her doctors said in a statement on Monday that she was being treated with blood thinners at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and she would be released once they felt they had established the right medication dose.

Doctors Lisa Bardack, from the Mount Kisco Medical Group, and Gigi El-Bayoumi, of George Washington University, said in their statement that Clinton had not suffered a stroke or any neurological damage.

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