08:53 AM EDT, 08/23/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were steady premarket Friday as the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) and iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) were recently inactive.

Galapagos (GLPG) shares were up more than 4% after saying the US Food and Drug Administration has approved an investigational new drug application for the study of its experimental therapy, GLPG5101, in patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma.