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Opening Glance: Health care stocks edge up



16 May 2008 @ 10:45 am EST

NEW YORK (AP) - Health care providers and service company stocks mostly traded higher Friday morning, with insurers bouncing back from their losses a day earlier.

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Morning results for key stocks in the sector included:

WellPoint Inc., up 92 cents to $50.80

Coventry Health Care Inc., up 67 cents to $43.52

UnitedHealth Group Inc., up 31 cents to $32.01

Patterson Cos., down 84 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $35.25

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