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Widely held health care stocks took a beating Wednesday as a mess of earnings reports gave investors indigestion.
GlaxoSmithKline(GSK Quote) fell 5.3% to $29.29 after the company posted a 13% drop in first-quarter profit.
Merck(GSK Quote) shares were ailing a day after the company reported it had missed analysts' profit estimates and posted lower sales from the year-ago quarter. The stock fell 2.4% to $22.97. Schering-Plough(SGP Quote) shares also fell, losing 2% to $21.67. ...
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