Health-care companies fell as fears about health insurers offset deal and lawsuit activity.

Novo Nordisk rose after the Danish maker of obesity drugs Ozempic and Wegovy sued online pharmacy Hims & Hers in an attempt to block any further sales of copycat versions of its weight-loss medications.

Novo rival Eli Lilly rose after it struck a deal to buy genetic-medicine biotechnology company Orna Therapeutics for up to $2.4 billion in cash, whose experimental treatments would harness the body's own cells to fight disease.


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