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On June 7, 2002, HEARx Ltd. issued a press release announcing that it will adjourn its annual meeting of stockholders scheduled for June 10, 2002 until June 25, 2002. The following is the text of the press release:
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| Paul A. Brown, M.D. | The Investor Relations Company: | |
| Chairman of the Board | Karl Plath or Brien Gately | |
| HEARx Ltd. | (847) 564-5610 | |
| (561) 478-8770 Ext. 123 |
HEARx LTD. TO ADJOURN ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
West Palm Beach, Florida – June 7, 2002 — HEARx Ltd. (AMEX: EAR) today announced that it intends to convene its Annual Meeting of Stockholders as scheduled on June 10, 2002 and then immediately adjourn the meeting to reconvene on June 25, 2002. The reconvened Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held at the same location, 700 13th Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington DC at 2:00 p.m. local time. The Company is planning this adjournment in order to give additional stockholders a further opportunity to vote at the Annual Meeting. The previously scheduled agenda items will remain the same.
HEARx Ltd. provides hearing care to patients whose health insurance and managed care organizations have contracted with HEARx for such care and to retail “self-pay” patients. Eighty HEARx centers are currently located in California, Florida, New York and New Jersey. HEARx is the largest hearing care organization accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in the $2.5 billion field of hearing services of which approximately $600 million is generated in the geographic areas currently serviced by HEARx centers.
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