{"id":111688,"date":"2026-08-26T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/111688\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:42:18","slug":"pharmalittle-shingles-shot-cuts-heart-risk-mass-biotech-jobs-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/111688\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmalittle: Shingles shot cuts heart risk, Mass. biotech jobs drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About 14% of employers in the U.S. have already or plan to drop coverage of GLP-1 drugs in 2027, as companies see \u200brising health care costs, Reuters<\/a> notes, citing a survey<\/a> by the Business Group \u200con Health. \u00a0Two-thirds of employers reported rising use of \u200bthe medicines while the share of employers \u200bcovering GLP-1 weight loss \u2060drugs dropped from 72% in 2025 to 60% in 2026. Pharmacy costs made up 25% of employer health care spending and are expected to rise by 12% in 2027, unchanged from the \u200byear prior. PepsiCo, for example, is dropping coverage, says Bloomberg News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The number of people working in Massachusetts\u2019 renowned\u00a0biotech sector\u00a0fell last year, the first time that\u2019s happened since at least 2002, The Boston Globe<\/a> writes. The state\u2019s biopharma workforce shrank by about 3,600 employees in 2025, to a total of 113,503, as industry headwinds and uncertainty about federal funding for scientific research battered the sector, according to the annual \u201cindustry snapshot<\/a>\u201d by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council trade group. Compared to 2024, the workforce declined by 3.1%.<\/p>\n

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