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Health Winners & Losers: StemCells

TSC Staff

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), up 29.1% at $2.26

Eurand N.V.(EURX), up 14% at $10.27

Geron(GERN), up 11% at $4.46

Simcere(SCR), up 9.4% at $7.90

AMAG Pharmaceuticals(AMAG), down 17.1% at $20.65

XenoPort(XNPT), down 14% at $34

Life Sciences Research(LSR), down 12.4% at $12.84

Pain Therapeutics (PTIE), down 11.1% at $7.65

Merck(MRK), down 4.2% at $27.71