Health-care companies ticked down as traders rotated back into cyclical sectors after relatively benign inflation data.

Roche Holdings is pushing forward with a longstanding plan to enter the gene-sequencing business, 10 years after a failed takeover bid for Illumina.

The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency-use authorization to Zoetis for a drug that treats New World screwworm infestations in dogs and puppies.

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