08:57 AM EDT, 05/20/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were steady pre-bell Monday as the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) was inactive and the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was up. 0.1% recently.

PTC Therapeutics ( PTCT ) was over 20% higher after saying the European Commission has decided not to adopt the negative opinion of the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on protein restoration therapy Translama.