08:51 AM EDT, 05/14/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were steady premarket Tuesday as the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was inactive and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) was slightly lower recently.

PTC Therapeutics ( PTCT ) was up more than 5% after saying the US Food and Drug Administration granted priority review for its biologics license application for gene therapy Upstaza.