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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/giffords-condition-much-improved.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A makeshift memorial outside the Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, where a gunman shot several people including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-giffords-condition-much-improved.jpg" alt="A makeshift memorial outside the Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, where a gunman shot several people including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The husband of shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords says his wife&#8217;s condition has improved so much that she has been able to smile and give him a neck rub at her hospital bedside.</p>
<p>The interactions with astronaut Mark Kelly are new signs of the Arizona Democrat&#8217;s impressive progress in recovering from the assassination attempt which happened as she held an open-air surgery on January 8.</p>
<p>The mass shooting outside a Tucson supermarket left six dead and 13 others wounded, including Ms Giffords, who was shot in the head.</p>
<p>But Ms Giffords, 40, still cannot speak because of a tube in her throat that is helping her breathe.</p>
<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s in the (intensive care unit). You know, gone through this traumatic injury. And she spent 10 minutes giving me a neck massage,&#8221; Mr Kelly says in an interview to be shown on ABC.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so typical of her that no matter how bad the situation might be for her, you know, she&#8217;s looking out for other people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Such encounters indicate higher levels of functioning, implying that &#8220;she&#8217;s recognising him and interacting, perhaps in an old familiar way with him&#8221;, said Dr Michael Lemole.</p>
<p>Dr Randall Friese said Mr Kelly also told doctors he saw Ms Giffords smile. He said sometimes people saw what they wanted to see, but that &#8220;if he says she&#8217;s smiling, I buy it&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Kelly has also been essential in helping Ms Giffords&#8217; staff through the tragedy, said Mark Kimble, a Tucson staff member who stood only a few feet from the politician when she was shot.</p>
<p>The shooting suspect, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, remained behind bars in Phoenix. Investigators have described him as a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of a community college last year and became increasingly erratic in recent months.</p>
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