Health-care companies fell, but not by as much as the broad market, amid deal activity.
Exact Sciences rallied after Abbott Laboratories agreed to buy the cancer diagnostics company for about $21 billion.
Vaccine-maker Moderna told investors that it still thinks it can stop losing money in 2028, and that its financial outlook remains strong, but that it had taken out a $1.5 billion loan to shore up its balance sheet.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might, the latest indication that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is putting his stamp on the agency.
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