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Health care stocks were slightly higher with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index climbing about 0.1% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 advancing about 0.2% as a group.

In company news, Heat Biologics ( HTBX ) rallied Monday after the biotech company today presented positive immunological data on its HS-410 drug candidate in certain forms of bladder cancer.

According to the company, one of the patients participating in the Phase I trial showed a 70-fold rise in CD8+ "killer" T cell after six weeks of HS-140 treatment following surgery and growing to 750-fold increase after 21 weeks of treatment.

The patient remains disease-free, HTBX said. A second patient experienced a non-specific immune infiltrate after seven weeks although a repeat biopsy at 13 weeks showed no further increase in the immune infiltrate.

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Health Care Sector Update for 01/26/2015: HTBX,ATNM,MSTX