Here are seven notable medical innovations to happen in healthcare since the beginning of 2023:
- Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai clinicians performed a rare triple organ transplant in a patient with sarcoidosis, according to a July 24 news release.
- Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Hospital made history in May when physicians delivered a baby following a uterus transplant outside of clinical trials.
- In April, researchers at the Columbia University School of Nursing in New York City discovered what was called "the first published evidence" of positive patient safety climates found to predict healthcare-associated infections and health outcomes.
- Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed in late March the first confirmed link between Parkinson's disease and a red brain pigment.
- Also in March, Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute opened what it claims is the "first and only" limb preservation program in the region.
- HCA Florida Northwest Hospital in Margate became the first facility in Broward County to offer robotic technology for minimally invasive hysterectomies in February.
- In January, a physician team at Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children's Medical Center successfully performed an 11-hour long surgical procedure to separate conjoined twins.