08:51 AM EDT, 03/26/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were flat to higher pre-bell Wednesday as the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) was 0.1% higher and the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was flat recently.

OSR (OSRH) shares surged past 170% after its Vaximm subsidiary said final data from a phase 2a trial showed that its investigational vaccine VXM01 in combination with avelumab "could offer meaningful clinical benefit" in patients with recurrent glioblastoma, a type of aggressive brain cancer.