01:24 PM EDT, 04/09/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were mixed Tuesday afternoon with the NYSE Health Care Index decreasing 0.4% and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) little changed.

The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) rose 1%.

In corporate news, Moderna ( MRNA ) shares jumped 6.1% after results from an early study of the company's cancer vaccine mRNA-4157 showed the therapy benefited patients with a type of head and neck cancer.