Do Education Programs Reduce Anxiety Before Arthroplasty? 

• by Henry Thomas

• February 12, 2026

Side Effects: Salt, Steroids, and Second Brains

So get this: sodium may track with memory decline (in men), steroids might not be “immunosuppressive” in the ICU, and second pregnancies reshape the brain differently than first. Same theme: biology is less binary than we teach it.

• by Kerri Miller

• April 22, 2026

• 7 min

Postop Pain Differs by Vitamin D Status

Patients with preoperative vitamin D deficiency had higher postoperative pain scores and opioid use after mastectomy, including more than triple the odds of moderate to severe pain within 24 hours of surgery.

• by Kathryn Wighton

• May 27, 2026

• 3 min

Defining orthoplastic limb salvage centers: a systematic review

• by Omar Moussa, Fernando J. Pacheco, Floris V. Raasveld, Marcos R. Gonzalez, Kamilcan Oflazoglu, Marco J. P. F. Ritt, Ian L. Valerio, Hinne Rakhorst, Krystle R. Tuaño, Kyle R. Eberlin

• May 2, 2026