5 Health-Care Stocks Making Big Moves

With so many stocks in the health-care sector making big jumps today, Motley Fool Health-Care Analyst David Williamson has chosen five movers that he has his eye on, and you should, too. He looks at Biocryst (NAS: BCRX) , Savient (NAS: SVNT) , Intermune (NAS: ITMN) , OraSure (NAS: OSUR) and Seattle Genetics (NAS: SGEN) , and finds four big plunges, and only one story of optimism, amid the second day in a row of major market carnage.

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