The field of federated learning is moving towards developing more robust and privacy-preserving methods for healthcare and other applications where data privacy is a major concern. Recent research has focused on improving the accuracy and efficiency of federated learning models, as well as developing new methods for secure and private data sharing. Notable advancements include the development of novel frameworks for federated learning, such as PQFed and FedDA, which have shown promising results in improving model performance and preserving data privacy. Additionally, researchers have explored the use of techniques such as differential privacy and secure aggregation to protect sensitive data. Overall, the field is advancing towards more secure and efficient federated learning methods that can be applied to a wide range of applications. Noteworthy papers include PQFed, which proposes a novel privacy-preserving personalized federated learning framework, and FedDA, which introduces a feature-level adversarial learning approach for cross-domain federated medical image segmentation.