Health stocks were dragging at the start of the week, with the Nasdaq and Amex biotechnology indices down 0.7% and 1.7%, respectively.
Among individual stocks, notable movers were: StemCells(STEM Quote), up 29.1% at $2.26 Eurand N.V.(EURX Quote), up 14% at $10.27 Geron(GERN Quote), up 11% at $4.46 Simcere(SCR Quote), up 9.4% at $7.90 AMAG Pharmaceuticals(AMAG Quote), down 17.1% at $20.65 XenoPort(XNPT Quote), down 14% at $34 Life Sciences Research(LSR Quote), down 12.4% at $12.84 Pain Therapeutics (PTIE Quote), down 11.1% at $7.65 Merck(MRK Quote), down 4.2% at $27.71



