Daily Briefing · Issue №087 · 2026-08-09

Physicians

Ensoma sheds more staff, pauses preclinical programs to home in on lead gene therapy

• Boston biotech Ensoma is doubling down on its lead gene therapy for a rare immune disease, laying off another round of employees after previously halving its workforce last November.

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Nursing

Industry Voices—AI won’t fix nurse burnout. Nurses will

• If AI rollouts follow the path of the technologies that came before them—designed for the system, not the people inside it—they could deepen the very burnout they’re trying to relieve.

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Health OS

Weekly Rundown: Hers rolls out new AI-native app; Novo Nordisk, H1 partner on AI-driven clinical development

• The latest news from Hims & Hers, Atropos Health, Signal 1, NewYork-Presbyterian, Sharecare, Novo Nordisk, H1, Strida, Hackensack Meridian Health and ModMed.

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