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Sector Update: Health Care
May 23, 2024 1:04 PM

03:40 PM EDT, 05/23/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were falling late Thursday afternoon with the NYSE Health Care Index decreasing 0.8% and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) down 1%.

The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was 1.7% lower.

In corporate news, GSK (GSK) won a jury verdict in Chicago after a Cook County, Illinois, circuit court concluded that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac wasn't a cause of a woman's cancer, Reuters reported. GSK shares were falling 1.3%.

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