Health Care Down, But not by Much, on Defensive Bias - Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies fell, but not by as much as the broad market, as traders rotated into defensive sectors due to geopolitical uncertainty.

Moderna and Merck's cancer vaccine reduced the risk of relapse or death for melanoma patients, five-year data from a Phase 2b trial showed.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to remake vaccine policy is facing public skepticism, as half of U.S. voters say the Trump administration has gone too far and left them less confident in the federal government's guidance on vaccines, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll.

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is running ads that play off Apple's humorous early-aughts "Get a Mac" campaign to try to distinguish Ozempic from other GLP-1 drugs taken for Type 2 diabetes.

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