Health Winners & Losers: StemCells

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