HTDS Hard To Treat Diseases Inc (CE)

Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: HTDS) (www.htdsmedical.com) announces that the merger negotiations with the Canadian Biotechnology company are proceeding well, and that the merger candidate permitted HTDS to release the name and additional information about the candidate:

The merger candidate, Hb Products Inc., is a Canadian biotechnology company that deals with blood transfusion products. Hb Products Inc. is a biotechnology company that is involved in validating a product that will reduce the major side effects related to transfusions of donated blood or hemoglobin-based blood substitutes.

Hb Products Inc. focuses on treatment of serious harmful side effects existing with the use of stored donor blood, focusing specifically on solving the loss of Nitric Oxide (NO) from the recipients' blood, which creates a hazardous condition called vasoconstriction. The market for these blood products is relatively untapped and highly competitive. Due to the potential market for blood substitutes and the shortfall of available donor blood, several pharmaceutical companies have attempted to gain FDA approval for their products, but none have succeeded as of yet. Hb Products Inc. plans to demonstrate in pre-clinical tests that its product can circumvent the loss of NO from blood and improve the shelf life of stored blood for up to 42 days.

The market value for blood transfusions on the North American market is currently in excess of $14 billion USD.

HTDS sees Hb Products as a perfect fit alongside their current medical subsidiaries Shenzhen Mellow Hope Pharm Industrial Co., Ltd. and Slavica Biochem.

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