Health Care Down as Retreat From Sector Continues -- Health Care Roundup

Dow Jones05-16 05:41

Health-care companies fell as a retreat from the sector continued.

The Supreme Court maintained widespread access to a common abortion pill, allowing doctors to continue mailing the drug to patients without first seeing them in person.

Contract drug manufacturers look set to benefit from the U.S. government's accelerated push to bring more pharmaceutical production onshore, said analysts at brokerage RBC Capital Markets, in a research note.

Amgen shares ticked down after reports that 20 people in Japan who took the biotech firm's rare-disease drug Tavneos have died, and at least 22 developed a potentially fatal liver injury. The disclosures were made by Kissei Pharmaceutical, which sells the medicine in the country.

 

Write to Rob Curran at rob.curran@dowjones.com

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