“Hospital-acquired infections have become less common in the U.S. A CDC survey of 13,653 patients at 218 hospitals found that 2.6 percent had at least one infection acquired during care in 2023, down from 3.2 percent in 2015. Over the same period, the estimated annual number of infections fell from 687,000 to 518,000,” reports The Doomslayer.
The New England Journal of Medicine reports:
Prevalence surveys in U.S. hospitals showed that on any given day, 1 of 25 patients had a health care–associated infection in 2011, as compared with 1 of 31 patients in 2015. We repeated the survey in 2023 to assess changes in the prevalence of such infections…
The prevalence of health care–associated infections was lower in 2023 than in 2015, with 1 of 38 patients on any given day having such an infection; however, the burden of health care–associated infections in U.S. hospitals continued to be high.
Medicine is improving. Doctors recently used a placenta to restore a woman’s destroyed face after an explosion.
A man received the world’s first whole-eye and face transplant in an operation at NYU Langone Health.
Researchers built a tiny robot that can deliver drugs and then dissolve.
Doctors did the first robotic liver transplant in America.
A virus is being used to cure deafness in new gene therapy.
A woman received her sister’s womb in the first womb transplant in the United Kingdom.
Scientists have developed tiny robots made of human cells to repair damaged cells. Nanorobots are also being used to fight cancer by cutting off the blood supply of tumors.
A genetically-modified chicken lays eggs that people allergic to eggs can eat. Scientists have genetically engineered a cow that produces human insulin in its milk.
Scientists have genetically engineered a fly species to eat more waste.
Genetic engineering recently produced pork that people who are allergic to pork can eat.
