Health-care companies were more or less flat as traders rotated into laggards from the volatile technology sector.
Eli Lilly agreed to buy neuroscience firm 4E Therapeutics, in what analysts said was the drug maker's latest attempt to develop a painkiller.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals got approval from the Food and Drug Administration for an over-the-counter nasal spray to treat opioid overdose.
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