Heinz Kerry in Hospital after Possible Seizure

Heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, was in critical but stable condition in a hospital July 8. She had shown symptoms that appeared to be some sort of seizure, a person in contact with the family told the Associated Press. Symptoms occurred July 7. Heinz Kerry, 74, and her husband had been on vacation on Nantucket Island. She was taken first to a hospital on the island. Then she was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Doctors have not released details of her condition. Heinz Kerry was treated for breast cancer in 2009. She is the widow of U.S. Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. She is also chairman of the Heinz family philanthropies. Heinz died in 1991 in the collision of a helicopter and a small plane. His widow married Kerry, then a U.S. senator, in 1995.