Daily Briefing · Issue №096 · 2026-08-18

Physicians

After 2 undisclosed gene therapy deaths, can China’s alternative regulatory path still be trusted?

• Two recent patient deaths—both involving severe immune reactions to high-dose, viral vector-delivered gene therapies and a lack of disclosures—have drawn international scrutiny to what appear to be systemic gaps in overs

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Physicians

Health AI Should be Assistive, Not Autonomous

• (MedPage Today) -- A physician signs a progress note generated from an ambient recording. Another accepts a predictive risk score embedded in the electronic health record. A third submits an artificial intelligence (AI)-

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Dentistry

CyberSmile opens Hong Kong training centre for robotic and AI-assisted dental implant surgery

• HONG KONG, China: CyberSmile, a new training centre for computer-assisted implant surgery, opened in Hong Kong earlier this year. Established by Drs James Chow, Nikos Mattheos and Alessandro Pozzi, the centre provides ha

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Pharmacy

Better Models Won’t Fix Pharma’s AI Problem — Better Terminology Will

• The bottleneck in AI-enabled real-world data analysis is not computation, model architecture, or training data volume. It is the semantic layer over which the AI is trying to reason – the place where precise clinical mea

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Pharmacy

How consumerization is reshaping pharma marketing

• GLP-1s, AI and telemedicine are changing patient behavior. Learn what it means for diagnosis, engagement and commercialization.

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Digital Health

AI In Healthcare: Doctors Must Stay Accountable, Experts Say

• Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from research labs into hospitals, medical classrooms and healthcare systems. But as India prepares for wider adoptio ...

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