Top Health-care stocks:
JNJ: flat
PFE: flat
ABT: flat
MRK: -0.1%
AMGN: flat
Health care shares were slightly higher in pre-market trading Tuesday.
Expected movers:
- Tenet Healthcare Corporation ( THC ): fell in pre-bell trading after it unveiled a process to explore a potential sale of Conifer and issued a downbeat outlook for 2018
- Kindred Healthcare ( KND ): to be acquired by TPG Capital, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Humana Inc. for $9.00 per share in cash
- Mylan ( MYL ): Europe's EMA regulator recommends company's generic version of Shire's ( SHPG ) Xagrid
- Onconova Therapeutics ( ONTX ): signs license and collaboration agreement with HanX Biopharmaceuticals for ON 123300
Other news:
- Amarin (AMRN): says final patient visits to start in March for REDUCE-IT cardiovascular outcomes study.
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