Tyre Nichols' 19-Minute Wait; Judge Uses ChatGPT in Ruling; WHO Report Angers Russia

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Nineteen minutes. That's how long two emergency medical technicians waited before providing care to Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by Memphis police. (New York Times)

Declared dead at an Alzheimer's care center in Iowa, a 66-year-old woman was found by funeral home workers gasping for air in a body bag. (New York Times)

A massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria early Monday morning has killed more than 1,500 people. (The Guardian)

In China, the obituaries of more than three dozen scholars in just the last 2 months offer a clue into the nation's undercount of its COVID deaths. (New York Times)

As of Monday at 8:00 a.m. ET, the unofficial COVID toll in the U.S. reached 102,592,201 cases and 1,111,495 deaths, increases of 308,615 cases and 3,849 deaths since this time a week ago.

The U.S. is expected to stop purchasing COVID shots in the early fall, a senior HHS official told CNBC.

Should it make the leap to humans, a bird flu pandemic would have the potential to be far more deadly than COVID. (New York Times)

A monoclonal antibody injection that can prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants is heading toward FDA approval this summer, but as it's not technically a vaccine, access may prove challenging for roughly half of America's kids. (NBC News)

In Colombia, a judge used ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence platform, in drafting a ruling for a case focused on children's medical rights. (CBS News)

Meanwhile, preventive cardiologists found that ChatGPT offered "largely appropriate responses" to basic questions about preventing heart disease. (JAMA)

Apple watches are mistaking skiers for car-crash victims, and then dialing 911 for help. (New York Times)

Only a quarter of U.S. hospitals are in compliance with new transparency rules on pricing. (Axios)

In Washington state, a woman with tuberculosis is refusing treatment and isolation; now the courts are involved. (NBC News)

Another unlawful opioid prescribing conviction has been overturned in the wake of the Supreme Court's Ruan ruling. (Reuters)

Some California middle and high schools now stock naloxone (Narcan), and lawmakers are considering make it mandatory for schools to carry the opioid reversal drug. (Politico)

Tensions between Russia and the U.S. flared anew following a World Health Organization report that described the situation in Ukraine as an acute global health emergency. (Reuters)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new nutrition standards for schools, which if enacted would curb sugar and sodium and boost whole grains. (NPR)

Dennis O'Leary, MD, the spokesperson for the medical team that treated President Ronald Reagan after he was shot, died at age 85 from complications of Parkinson's disease. (Washington Post)

FDA designated Smith Medical's recall of certain CADD infusion system Administration Sets and Cassette Reservoirs as Class I -- the most serious type.

The FDA expanded the approval of lanadelumab (Takhzyro) to prevent hereditary angioedema attacks to include children age 2 years and older, said drugmaker Takeda.

The agency also approved a pre-filled single-use pen form of tezepelumab (Tezspire) for treating severe asthma in children 12 years and up, said Amgen.

And the FDA green-lit sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) for previously treated breast cancer patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative disease, Gilead announced.

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    Shannon Firth has been reporting on health policy as MedPage Today's Washington correspondent since 2014. She is also a member of the site's Enterprise & Investigative Reporting team. Follow