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Top Health Care Stocks:
JNJ: -0.27%
PFE: -0.38%
ABT: Flat
MRK: Flat
AMGN: Flat
Health care stocks were flat to lower in Monday’s pre-market trading .
Stocks moving on news include:
(+) Acorda Therapeutics ( ACOR ), which was up by more than 13% after the US Food and Drug Administration approved Inbrija for the intermittent treatment of OFF episodes in people with Parkinson’s disease treated with carbidopa/levodopa.
In other sector news:
(+) ChromaDex ( CDXC ) was down more than 1%. In after hours Dec. 20 the company unveiled a license and supply agreement with Nestle Health Science providing the latter with exclusive right to CDXC’s nicotinamide riboside ingredient TRU NIAGEN dietary supplement in its branded medical nutrition.
(=) India-based drug maker Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd ( RDY ) was flat after it launched the sale of aspirin and extended-release Dipyridamole capsules, a generic version of Aggrenox, in the United States.
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