medical innovations
New treatment methods
Medical innovations are advances in healthcare that improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or management of disease and injury.
The term encompasses new drugs, surgical techniques, diagnostic tools, medical devices, and therapeutic approaches.
The medical innovations of the past century have doubled life expectancy in developed nations.
Innovation in medicine often requires years of research and clinical trials before reaching patients.
- artificial organsManufactured replacements for body parts
- heart transplantReplacing a failing pump
- nanomedicineMolecular-level medical technology
- biologicsDrugs derived from organisms
- Alexander FlemingPenicillin's discoverer
biosensors · robotic surgery · mRNA vaccines · implant · artificial limb · CAR-T therapy · CRISPR · monoclonal antibodies · infection control · miracle drug · laser · pharmacology · vaccination campaigns · scan · minimally invasive surgery · pacemaker · cures · monitor
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, field surgery
medical innovationstraditional remedies
Time-tested healing practices
folk medicine · herbal remedies · home remedies · Ayurveda · traditional Chinese medicine
medical innovationsquackery
Fraudulent medical practice
snake oil · charlatanism · pseudoscience · faith healing · miracle cures