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Health care stocks were tilting lower Tuesday afternoon, including a slightly more than 0.3% decline for the NYSE Health Care Index in recent trading. Shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 were down almost 0.2% as a group while the Nasdaq Biotechnology index was losing about 0.2% today.
Among health care stocks moving on news:
+ Viking Therapeutics ( VKTX ) climbed as much as 10% on Tuesday after saying it has completed enrollment for a phase II trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of its VK2809 drug candidate in patients with primary hypercholesterolemia and non-alcoholic fatty liver and elevated LDL cholesterol levels.
In other sector news:
+ Protalix BioTherapeutics ( PLX ) rose Tuesday after the early-stage pharmaceuticals company reported additional positive trial results for its OPRX-106 drug candidate in patients with ulcerative colitis. OPRX-106 met the primary endpoints of the phase II study by showing clinical response and remission after six weeks in addition to mucosal healing.
- Eli Lilly ( LLY ) has turned lower Tuesday afternoon, giving back a nearly 1% advance soon after the opening bell after US regulators approved a combination of Keytruda and Alimta chemotherapies as a new treatment for n nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer
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