Health care stocks were lower premarket Monday, with the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) slipping 0.3% and the State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) down 0.5%.
GH Research (GHRS) shares were up more than 38% after the company said the US Food and Drug Administration has lifted the clinical hold on its investigational new drug application for GH001 as a potential treatment for depression, allowing the company to proceed with subject enrollment in the US.
Novo Nordisk (NVO) stock was up more than 2% after the company said it will offer its 1.5 mg and 4 mg oral weight loss drug Wegovy at $149 per month to self-paying patients in the US, starting Jan. 5.
Gyre Therapeutics (GYRE) shares were nearly 6% higher after the company said its Chinese unit reached an agreement with China's Center for Drug Evaluation to seek conditional approval for its liver fibrosis treatment Hydronidone.