{"id":426976,"date":"2026-05-05T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/426976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:40:15","slug":"hantavirus-abortion-pill-paternal-deaths-morning-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/426976\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus, abortion pill, paternal deaths: Morning Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Yesterday, the writer Yiyun Li won a Pulitzer Prize for her heartbreaking memoir, \u201cThings in Nature Merely Grow.\u201d Lately, I\u2019ve been reading\u00a0her short stories. Here\u2019s one for after you\u2019ve read the news, about a health care worker of sorts: \u201cA Sheltered Woman<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latest on the abortion pill<\/p>\n

A Monday order from the Supreme Court, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, temporarily restored broad access to mifepristone after a federal appeals court ruling on Friday jeopardized access to the abortion medication at pharmacies or through the mail. The Supreme Court order will remain in effect until the end of the day next Monday, giving both sides time to respond while the court considers the issue. The AP has more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if the ruling has temporarily restored access, the case should concern every leader in biotech and pharmaceuticals, regardless of where they stand on reproductive health,\u201d biotech executive Grace E. Col\u00f3n writes in a new First Opinion essay. Read more<\/a> from her on how the case could impact all types of drug development.<\/p>\n

What you need to know about hantavirus (don\u2019t panic)<\/p>\n

What appears to be an outbreak of hantavirus<\/a> on a ship anchored near the tiny mid-Atlantic nation of Cabo Verde has infectious diseases experts puzzled. Puzzled, and concerned for the passengers and crew on the m\/v Hondius, but not at this point alarmed for the greater public.<\/p>\n

Hantavirus is spread by rodents, who shed the virus in their droppings and urine. Confirmed cases are often people who\u2019ve been cleaning up a cabin after a winter. It\u2019s not an illness associated with cruise ships and it\u2019s rarely transmitted person to person.<\/p>\n

So far there appear to have been seven cases, three of them fatal. Only two so far have tested positive for hantavirus. The WHO<\/a> said Monday that planning is underway to medically evacuate three ill people on the boat the Netherlands, the cruise line\u2019s home base.About 150 passengers<\/a> \u2014 17 of them Americans \u2014 and crew remain onboard, confined to quarters, while public health authorities try to determine the source of the infection. The incubation period of hantavirus can be several weeks, so figuring out where and when people got infected \u2014 and whether any human-to-human spread occurred \u2014 could prove challenging. We\u2019ll keep an eye on this. \u2014 Helen Branswell<\/p>\n

Should we be tracking paternal deaths<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a long-established crisis in the U.S. when it comes to maternal mortality. Both federal and state agencies monitor maternal and infant health, and a new study argues that early deaths among fathers should also be systemically tracked. But in an initial, localized attempt, the findings point to the opposite of a public health crisis: Fatherhood was associated with reduced mortality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authors are breaking ground by framing preventable paternal death as a family health issue,\u201d said physician Neel Shah. Still, he and other maternal health experts pushed back on the idea that paternal deaths should be monitored alongside maternal deaths. Read more<\/a> from STAT\u2019s Annalisa Merelli on the discussion around how to frame paternal mortality. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We are like aliens for many people.\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how one health professional who studied abroad described returning to Uzbekistan. Bringing new medical expertise back to one\u2019s home country can come with major challenges. In a new First Opinion essay, international education expert Maia Chankseliani describes what she calls the other half of the brain drain story, based on her own interviews with internationally educated professionals who return to their countries of origin.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrain drain is a powerful metaphor,\u201d Chankseliani writes. \u201cBut as a governing frame, it obscures as much as it reveals.\u201d Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The number of hospitalizations for cold-related illnesses tripled over a 25-year period, according to a study published yesterday in Health Affairs<\/a>. Researchers analyzed patient data and found that hospitalizations for hypothermia, frostbite, and other complications from exposure to excessive cold increased from 42 per 100,000 overall hospitalizations in 1998 to nearly 123 per 100,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n

People with autism, substance use disorder, other mental health disorders, and housing insecurity were more likely to experience cold-related hospitalizations than their peers, the research found. They were also far more likely to die in the hospital than other patients. The researchers recommend expanding programs providing home energy assistance and emergency shelter.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re reading<\/p>\n

The internet is obsessed with ovulation, The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n

Top lawmaker takes aim at doctor lobby, linking AMA\u2019s billing codes to fraud fight, STAT<\/a><\/p>\n

RFK Jr\u2019s new podcast is as weird as you\u2019d expect, Wired<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson & Johnson advances IBD therapy, despite trial miss, STAT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. Yesterday, the writer Yiyun Li won a Pulitzer Prize for her heartbreaking memoir, \u201cThings in Nature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,1541,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-426976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}