Health Care Down As Lilly Earnings Weigh -- Health Care Roundup

Shares of health-care companies fell as earnings disappointed.

Eli Lilly shares declined after the drug maker's executives raised concerns about pricing on its diabetes drugs and growth at its animal-health unit.

Brenda Fitzgerald, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned following a report she had bought shares in a tobacco company last summer shortly after assuming her post running the nation's public-health agency.

--Rob Curran, rob.curran@dowjones.com

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January 31, 2018 16:29 ET (21:29 GMT)