TMZ has learned doctors who worked on Michael Jackson at the UCLA Medical Center ran two EKGs on the singer, and at least one doctor who interpreted the results claims there was heart rhythmic activity both times.


Furthermore, sources tell TMZ Dr. Conrad Murray insists he was able to restart Jackson's heart at the singer's home before paramedics arrived and then maintained heart activity in the ambulance.

Dr. Murray's evaluation contradicts paramedics at the scene who wanted to take Jackson to the morgue, not UCLA, because they believed he was dead.

It also contradicts Joe Jackson's lawyer, Brian Oxman, who tells TMZ he believes Jackson was dead even before paramedics arrived at the house. Oxman says the weak pulse detected at UCLA was in reaction to resuscitation efforts.

We're told the criminal case is shaping up as a legal war between medical experts, who will be interpreting medical tests and charts in various ways -- always confusing for a jury.

Erica "Rikki" Mongeon was released from the ICU on Tuesday -- but doctors have told the "Double Shot of Love" star's family that she's looking at a lengthy hospital stay.

According to her manager, Erica is making slow improvements after coming out of her medically induced coma earlier this week.

We're told a family member has been staying with her around the clock.

Erica and her sister Victoria were passengers in a car that collided with a semi-truck in Bakersfield last week. There were no other serious injuries.

Brad Paisley fell during an encore at his concert in South Carolina last night and had to be taken to a local hospital.



Brad was singing "Alcohol" when he fell -- but he got back up and finished the song before being taken to a Charleston hospital. He was released Sunday morning.



Paisley posted a pic while in the hospital and a Twitter challenge to followers asking for the video. Ask and ye shall receive.

Liev Schreiber rushed to the aid of a fan in the audience during his performance of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" in New York City last night.

According to a witness, a woman in the audience started screaming for help during the play. When the lights came up, it was revealed that her husband was slumped over in his seat.

That's when, according to the eye witness, "Liev Schreiber sprung to action." He came from behind the set of the stage and ran up to the seats of the man and woman to try and help as much as he could. There was a doctor in the audience (isn't there always?) and they provided medical attention until help arrived.

Paramedics confirmed they were called to the theater and the patient was transported. There was no immediate update on his condition, but we're told the man was conscious and responsive before he left.

Gary Coleman suffered an apparent seizure this morning while on the set of "The Insider" and was rushed to the hospital ... according to sources on set.

We're told Dr. Drew was with Coleman at the time as part of some kind of panel -- and Dr. Drew actually helped Coleman until paramedics arrived.

Paramedics tell TMZ a male was transported from the studio at around 10:14 AM.

Coleman was hospitalized on January 6 after suffering what he called "a little seizure activity."

Coleman walked off the show last week, after the panel repeatedly asked him if he beat his wife.

Sean Penn is personally responsible for saving two lives Thursday during a rescue mission in Haiti -- a woman and an orphan child badly injured in the rubble of a collapsed building ... TMZ has learned.



Penn -- who runs the Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization -- drove an hour and a half with his daughter Dylan to rescue a woman and child who were trapped in rubble outside Port-au-Prince, possibly from an aftershock.

An eyewitness tells TMZ Penn helped extricate the woman, who suffered leg injuries, and the child, who suffered head injuries. Penn drove them in his truck to the University of Miami hospital camp in Port-au-Prince.

We're told Penn waited while the woman and child were treated for their injuries and then took them back to his place.

The woman and the child have nowhere to go, and Penn won't leave them until they have a safe place to go.

Hillary Clinton went to the hospital last night to visit her husband, former president Bill Clinton, after he underwent a heart procedure in New York City.



Bill was released early this morning and plans on returning soon to McDonald's his work on Haiti relief.

Captain Phil Harris -- star of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" -- died about an hour ago* ... sources tell TMZ.

Harris was hospitalized a few weeks ago after suffering a stroke while unloading crabs. He had been doing better until the sudden turn.

Captain Harris died in a hospital in Alaska. He was 53.

Harris' kids, Jake and Josh, tell TMZ, "It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad, Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down. We will remember and celebrate that strength. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers."

*This post originally went up last night at 11:45 PM ET

Charlie Sheen's wife Brooke Mueller is still very ill, even though she's been released from the hospital.



Brooke's lawyer, Yale Galanter, tells TMZ his client is "OK, not great ... I'm still very concerned about her."

Galanter says Brooke still has fluid in her lungs from the pneumonia that landed her in the hospital last week.

Doctors have said Brooke cannot fly anywhere until the fluid in her lungs clears up. She's supposed to attend the hearing in Aspen on February 8.

Galanter acknowledges Brooke and Charlie cannot communicate with each other now that she is out of the hospital ... because of the protective order.

A much happier Charlie Sheen visited Brooke Mueller today in the hospital -- and this time he was allowed to talk to his wife. Late yesterday, the judge in Charlie's Aspen case relaxed the protective order and allowed Charlie to have contact with Brooke while she's laid up in the hospital.


As we previously reported, Brooke was hospitalized yesterday for pneumonia. We're told she's still in ICU.

Lawyers in the Charlie Sheen criminal case just met with the judge and the motion to modify the protective order has officially been moved to February 8 -- because Brooke Mueller is really, really ill.



TMZ first reported Brooke was taken to the hospital yesterday and placed in ICU: She has pneumonia and a high fever.

The Aspen judge in Charlie Sheen's criminal case loosened the restraining order yesterday, to allow Sheen to have contact with his wife while she's in the hospital.

We got video of Sheen coming and going from the hospital yesterday.

Lawyers told the judge in court today Brooke will be in the hospital for awhile.