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About 20 Border Patrol Agents learned how to deliver babies at Scripps hospital in La Jolla today. It's part of a larger initiative to expand border agents' emergency medical training. KPBS Reporter A

Nearly 5 percent of Americans are taking drugs to treat heartburn and acid reflux. A recent study gave the drugs to people who didn't have stomach problems to begin with. Nearly half developed "rebound" acid reflux after taking the drugs for 12 weeks.

"Social enterprise" is a business concept which combines private and public money to provide an underserved community with jobs, commerce, and opportunity. Some say the Market Creek Plaza in Southeas

Change is in the air for medical care in San Diego -- at least north of I-8. Irwin and Joan Jacobs have donated $75 million toward a new $664 million Jacobs Medical Center, which will house a new 245-bed medical tower as well as a cancer-care hospital, advanced surgery unit and maternity and infant care. Federal healthcare reform will also change the landscape. We discuss the impact of both on medical care here.

This weekend, we'll talk food and music in San Diego. If you want to dine at the latest hot spot or see some live live music, we have a Weekend Preview for you.

Salon.com publishes previously unreleased photos of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. Separately, a U.N. report urges the United States to close its military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

As the Bush administration winds down, Morning Edition talks with foreign analysts this week about how the U.S. looks from abroad as the Obama administration prepares to take over. Today: the view from Iran with author Hooman Majd. He tells Steve Inskeep that the Obama White House will need to understand the Iranian culture if it plans to hold diplomatic talks with Iran — or officials won't get very far.

Hundreds of pages of documents, search warrants and other court records show that the late Bruce Ivins was deeply troubled, but the evidence is largely circumstantial. Officials said Ivins was the "custodian" of a specific anthrax strain that was used in the 2001 attacks that killed five people.

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Bernard Trainor is co-author of Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and the Occupation of Iraq. He talks with Scott Simon about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's relations with military leaders.

Administration officials say Middle East expert Dennis Ross could move soon from the State Department to the White House. The move would signal that the administration is aiming for a more unified strategy on Iran and the entire Middle East.