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Sector Update: Healthcare Stocks Fall in Afternoon Trading

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Healthcare stocks declined Tuesday afternoon, with the NYSE Healthcare Index and the State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) each falling 1.1%.

The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) dropped 3%.

In corporate news, Abivax (ABVX) faces an increasing risk of black box warning for obefazimod due to malignancies reported from a recent trial, Wedbush Securities said in a note. Abivax shares fell nearly 42%.

Heron Therapeutics (HRTX) shares dropped 39% after the company said the US District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that claims in two of its Cinvanti injectable emulsion patents are invalid.

Praxis Precision Medicines' (PRAX) shares tumbled 16% after it reported late Monday that its phase 2/3 trial assessing vormatrigine to treat focal onset seizures failed to meet its primary endpoint of percent change in monthly seizure frequency from baseline.

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