NEW YORK, June 2 /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 changes effective on the opening of trading on Thursday, June 5, 2008: NeuroSearch AS (Copenhagen: NEUR) will replace Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in the HealthShares(TM) Metabolic-Endocrine Disorders Index. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is being acquired by GlaxoSmithKline plc .
Companies included in the HealthShares(TM) Metabolic-Endocrine Disorders Index are engaged in the research, clinical development and/or commercialization of therapeutic agents for the treatment of a wide variety of metabolic-endocrine disorders including, but not limited to, diabetes, obesity, Syndrome X, growth deficiency and rare lysosomal disorders.
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