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Health Winners & Losers: Amag

TSC Staff

Health stocks turned higher on Thursday, with the Nasdaq and Amex biotechnology indices tacking on 3.3% and 3.1%, respectively.

Among individual stocks, notable movers were:

Amag Pharmaceuticals(AMAG Quote), up 88% at $34.61

Optimer(OPTR Quote), up 17% at $7

Alpharma(ALO Quote), up 6.2% at $30.64

Savient Pharmaceuticals(SVNT Quote), up 12.9% at $4.65

Schering-Plough(SGP Quote), up 8.4% at $15.85

Wyeth(WYE Quote), up 6.2% at $34.46

Elbit Imaging(EMITF Quote), down 16.1% at $8.43

Poniard Pharmaceuticals(PARD Quote), down 10.8% at $3.47

Affymetrix(AFFX Quote), down 9% at $3.14

King (KG Quote), down 5.5% at $9.47