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Giving trauma patients with severe blood loss the hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP) cut the volume of blood products required to stabilize them by half, according to results of a new, first-of-its-kind clinical trial from Penn Medicine.

Kristy Weber, MD, chief of Orthopaedic Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Sarcoma Program in Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, will become the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ first female president, officially taking the helm today during the AAOS 2019 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas.

Penn Medicine’s L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, chairman of the department of Orthopedic Surgery, and a professor of Plastic Surgery, has been elected President of the American Society for the Surgery of the Hand (ASSH).

For many patients on the road to bariatric surgery, the process may seem daunting: track steps and exercise, record caloric and water intake, monitor sleep time, alter diet, etc. But with the launch of Penn Medicine’s first-of-its-kind app for bariatric surgery patients, many of these things will be taken care of automatically.

Minority women are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction than white women, even if they live in the same area and have similar insurance.