03:42 PM EDT, 08/09/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks rose late Friday afternoon with the NYSE Health Care Index rising 0.8% and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) up 0.4%.

The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) shed 0.2%.

In corporate news, AN2 Therapeutics ( ANTX ) shares plunged 62% after the company said it will discontinue phases 2 and 3 of a trial of epetraborole to treat refractory Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease.