08:42 AM EST, 12/16/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were mixed premarket Monday as the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) was up 0.1% and the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was down 0.4%.

Edgewise Therapeutics ( EWTX ) shares soared 21% after it said a phase 2 trial of sevasemten to treat patients with Becker muscular dystrophy met its primary endpoint of change from baseline in creatine kinase.