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The White House has signed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and, if your school Lawrence
“reports, for decades, the U.S. has been concerned about nuclear weapons proliferation”
in the Middle East." The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long sought U.S. reactor technology with the stated goal of developing a peaceful nuclear power program. The American nuclear industry is interested in doing business with the oil-rich country, but previous U.S. presidents had worried it could lead to a weapons program, and a nuclear
arms race in the Middle East with the Saudi's arch-rival Iran. In the past, nuclear cooperation was held out as an incentive if Saudi Arabia recognized the state of Israel, or if the Kingdom addressed human rights concerns. According to a memo seen by NPR, this deal requires none of those concessions, and may not
include the strictest international inspections to make sure the Saudis don't begin a weapons
program. "We're Lawrence and PR news."
“An independent autopsy has failed to identify the cause of death for Nolan Wells, an”
18-year-old in Mississippi, whose body was found shortly after he disappeared, following a July 4th boat trip with friends. Dear Ajax and with Mississippi Public Broadcasting has more. Attorney Ben Kromp, who has been representing Wells' family, presented the results of the independent autopsy, conducted by Washington D.C. forensic pathologist, Dr. Roger Mitchell.
The autopsy says Mitchell's findings were limited because they received the body after the initial autopsy in Mississippi. "For these reasons, this pathologist cannot rule out if any intervening non-accidental factors contributed to a cause of the death of Nolan Wells." An autopsy in toxicology results by authorities in Mississippi have not been released, for NPR News,
on Tier Jackson, in Jackson, Mississippi. A man in Florida is suing open AI, alleging chatGPT, gave him dangerous medical advice during a health crisis.
“If your Shannon Bond reports, the lawsuit comes as AI companies are promoting their chatbots”
as resources for health. Scott Winters says he suffered a near-fatal pulmonary embolism last year after returning to chatGPT about his health problems. He says the chatbot discouraged him from seeking medical care for his symptoms and gave him dangerous recommendations, including about taking prescription drugs.
The lawsuit filed in California State Court alleges Open AI safeguards meant to urge people to seek professional advice, failed winters. Open AI says an assstatement that chatGPT should not be used as a substitute for medical care diagnosis or treatment. Winters is seeking damages in asking the court to order Open AI to strengthen its guardrails
around medical conversations, Shannon Bond and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Peptide therapies promoted for wellness and longevity will be under scrutiny this week, advisors to the food and drug administration will meet for two days starting tomorrow to consider lifting restrictions on the injectable compounds.
Players will stone reports that peptide industry is pushing hard for the changes. These peptides are not FDA approved and have not undergone large rigorous trials in humans, but they become wildly popular in the wellness space, making wide-ranging claims. For the last few years, compounding pharmacies have been prohibited for making some of the most popular ones.
Industry groups like the American Academy of Peptide Medicine are urging the government to lift those restrictions, Lee Rose Bush leads that group. This isn't a fringe position, it's where the American public already is. But FDA's own scientists are recommending the restrictions stay in place, saying there's not enough data on safety or effectiveness to green light their production.
The expert committee will ultimately vote on seven peptides.
Will Stone and PR News. Africa's CDC says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has risen to at least 1,000 people in the fastest Ebola outbreak in history. The latest update from Congo's Ministry of Health shows that as of Monday, 2,473 cases have been recorded in this latest outbreak.
Now the outbreak declared a May 15th is unlike most previous ones because this version of the virus has no approved vaccines or treatments. Sign Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. If the culture is asking it, we're talking about it. At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious and indulge your cultural curiosity.
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