The family of Spanish golf legend Seve Ballesteros, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008, say that his condition is worsening.

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The second man to be tried for a deadly home invasion in Connecticut has asked a court to accept a guilty plea on the condition he would be spared the death penalty.

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Suspect in Petit killings seeks plea deal

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ prepares to move to a rehab clinic Wednesday morning after doctors upgraded her condition from ‘serious’ to ‘good’. The move was originally delayed after doctors spotted an excess amount of cerebrospinal fluid during a cat…

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Giffords Condition Bumped to ‘Good’

Fine. I’m willing to repeal Obamacare . On one condition.

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Yes, repeal health-care reform – on one condition

How do stammerers overcome their condition?

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King’s Speech therapy

Everyone was encouraged to hear that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wiggled her toes, raised two fingers, and, best of all, gave a thumbs up on Monday. But important details on her condition are still unclear: Doctors haven’t revealed the path the bullet took…

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Giffords’ Responses Hint at Extent of Injury

Rep. Giffords remains in critical condition, but her condition has stabilized. “We’re not out of the woods yet,” but we’re optimistic about her recovery, said one doctor.

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Doctors ‘optimistic’ about Giffords’ recovery

Jamie and Gladys Scott have been released from their Mississippi prison on the condition that one donates kidney to the other.

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‘Kidney sisters’ prison release deal

Jamie and Gladys Scott have been released from their Mississippi prison on the condition that one donates kidney to the other.

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Two imprisoned sisters whose sentences were dropped on the condition that one donate her kidney to the other have been released from jail in Mississippi.

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‘Kidney sisters’ leave US prison

Tiny changes to an “alarm” protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs.

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Clue to drug-free HIV ‘control’

Differences in the brain structure of people carrying an ‘autism gene’ may offer clues to how the condition develops, say US scientists.

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Scans reveal autism brain secrets

ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer has an important story on a court opinion issued in the case of Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, a man imprisoned for seven years in Guantánamo. Judge Henry Kennedy concluded that the prisoner is mentally ill and that the government had no tenable basis to hold him. He issued an opinion, going through the normal channels for classification review. The Justice Department cleared a form of his opinion, and it was released. Within days, the Justice Department, stung by the scathing nature of the opinion, which methodically reviewed false factual claims that DOJ lawyers made, insisted that it be withdrawn and rewritten, apparently arguing to the judge that it disclosed classified information about the circumstances of the prisoner’s capture. As quickly became apparent, the object of the Justice Department’s revisions had little to do with state secrets—but a lot to do with covering up the Court’s dissection of what lawyers like to call a “failure of candor.” Uthman was probably mentally ill when he arrived, and his condition likely deteriorated at Guantánamo. The hypocrisy of the Justice Department’s position became even more glaring when it filed an appellate brief (PDF) containing its own highly doctored versions of the very facts it had insisted that Kennedy avoid discussing. . . .

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SCOTT HORTON—Another Chapter in the Justice Department’s State-Secrecy Charade

Cream often prescribed to relieve the symptoms of eczema may be making the condition worse, researchers claim.

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Aqueous cream ‘aggravates eczema’

“You, most blessed and happiest among humans, may well consider those blessed and happiest who have departed this life before you, and thus you may consider it unlawful, indeed blasphemous, to speak anything ill or false of them, since they now have been transformed into a better and more refined nature. This thought is indeed so old that the one who first uttered it is no longer known; it has been passed down to us from eternity, and hence doubtless it is true. Moreover, you know what is so often said and passes for a trite expression. What is that, he asked? He answered: It is best not to be born at all; and next to that, it is better to die than to live; and this is confirmed even by divine testimony. Pertinently to this they say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: ‘you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature’s excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can.’ It is plain therefore, that he declared the condition of the dead to be better than that of the living.” . . .

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Aristotle—The Wisdom of Silenus