Sharon Smith

As the number of cesarean sections has increased over the past 30 years, a faster surgical closure technique has gained widespread use but may increase long-term complications. Medscape Medical News source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/older-c-section-surgical-technique-may-reduce-complications-2026a10005cr?src=rss

Social media may glamorize athletes’ diets, but restrictive eating combined with intense training can produce low energy availability, menstrual dysfunction, and bone loss in female competitors. Medscape News Europe source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/energy-deficit-and-bone-loss-female-athletes-2026a100057n?src=rss

Women with obesity can lose more weight with a novel multicomponent nutrition intervention called NutrirCom than on a calorie-restricted diet. Medscape Medical News source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-intervention-bests-cutting-calories-weight-loss-2026a100057i?src=rss

Adults who undergo coronary angiography immediately after cardiac arrest without ST-segment elevation may not live longer than those who undergo the procedure after a delay, 5-year data show. Medscape Medical News source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/early-angiography-after-cardiac-arrest-no-long-term-edge-2026a100057f?src=rss

Most adults feel statins do not offer enough benefit to start the treatment and willingness to start rises with increasing heart disease risk, a new survey of US and Japanese participants finds. Medscape Medical News source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/most-adults-do-not-see-enough-benefits-start-statins-2026a100051h?src=rss

Adding metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) to standard of care was tied to improvements in several survival endpoints in oligometastatic prostate cancer, a recent analysis suggests. Medscape Medical News source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/compelling-data-metastasis-directed-therapy-oligometastatic-2026a100051e?src=rss