08:54 AM EDT, 08/30/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were flat to higher premarket Friday with the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) inactive and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) recently up 0.3%.

Emergent BioSolutions ( EBS ) shares rose past 16% after it said the US Food and Drug Administration has approved its supplemental application for ACAM2000, single-dose vaccine for smallpox and mpox.