NEW YORK, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Mergent, Inc., administrator for the HealthShares(TM) Indexes, a series of 20 underlying indexes for the HealthShares(TM) Exchange Traded Funds, today announced the following change effective on the opening of trading on Wednesday July 9, 2008: ISTA Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ISTA) will replace Jerini AG (Frankfurt, Germany: JI4) in the HealthShares(TM) Ophthalmology Index. Jerini AG is being acquired by Shire Limited (London Main Market, U.K.: SHP LO).
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Companies included in the HealthShares(TM) Ophthalmology Index are engaged in the research, clinical development and/or commercialization of therapeutic agents by means of pharmaceuticals, medical devices or biomaterials for the treatment of various diseases of the eye including, but not limited to, age-related macular degeneration, dry-eye, diabetic macular edema, glaucoma, presbyopia and myopia.
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