Condition of Kerry’s wife improves; stroke, brain tumor ruled out

 WASHINGTON, July 10: Teresa Heinz Kerry’s condition continues to improve and doctors have ruled out a heart attack, stroke or brain tumor as causing the “seizure-like” symptoms suffered by US Secretary of State John Kerry’s wife, the State Department said yesterday. Heinz Kerry, 74, was taken to a hospital on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket on Sunday and then flown in her own plane to be treated at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, where she remains. (agencies)