EANS-Adhoc: LifeWatch and Verizon Wireless to Expand Healthcare Telemedicine Solutions Agreement Facilitates Expanded Patient Monitoring Capabilities

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Marketing/Cooperation LifeWatch AG with Verizon Wireless

02.06.2009

Neuhausen am Rheinfall / Switzerland and Chicago / USA, June 2, 2009
- LifeWatch Services, Inc., the leading provider of wireless
telemedicine services in the U.S. and the major U.S. subsidiary of
Swiss-based LifeWatch AG's (formerly Card Guard) (SIX Swiss Exchange:
LIFE), today announced that it has reached an exclusive agreement
with Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless service
provider. Under this agreement, Verizon Wireless will be the
preferred network for LifeWatch's successful remote monitoring
service for cardiac patients.

LifeWatch's rapidly expanding LifeStar ACT Ambulatory Cardiac
Telemetry service has been used by more than 60,000 patients since
its introduction in the first quarter of 2007. The service is
routinely selected by the top 50 heart centers in the United States.
"This strategic agreement underscores the common vision shared by
LifeWatch and Verizon Wireless in the evolving telemedicine industry
by combining our applications for timely patient diagnoses with the
most reliable wireless telecommunication platform providing the
highest quality transmissions of critical data," said Dr. Yacov Geva,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LifeWatch AG, the parent
company of LifeWatch Services.

"Verizon Wireless' Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) 3G network
provides a secure, high-speed path for carrying data today and it
will continue to do so as the demand increases in the future," said
T.J. Fox, president- Illinois/Wisconsin Region, Verizon Wireless.
"This agreement provides LifeWatch with custom solutions and a
wireless platform to support long-term growth in the expanding
healthcare market." Dr. Geva added, "New avenues of development for
both companies will open as LifeWatch expands our innovation pipeline
to remotely monitor patients for additional disease states and
wellness conditions from virtually any location."

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About LifeWatch AG

LifeWatch AG, headquartered in Neuhausen am Rheinfall and listed on SIX Swiss

Exchange (LIFE), Switzerland, is the leading healthcare technology
and solution company, specializing in advanced telehealth systems and
wireless cardiac monitoring services. LifeWatch services treat
high-risk and chronically ill patients, health conscious consumers
and wellness programs. LifeWatch has subsidiaries in the United
States, the Netherlands, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and
Israel. LifeWatch AG is the parent company of LifeWatch Services
Inc., a leading US-based cardiac monitoring service provider, and
LifeWatch Technologies Inc., a US-based manufacturer of
telecardiology products. www.lifewatch.com

About LifeWatch Corp.

LifeWatch is a wholly owned subsidiary of LifeWatch AG, the leading
healthcare technology and solutions provider listed on SIX Swiss
Stock Exchange (LIFE). LifeWatch Corp., through its operating
subsidiaries LifeWatch Services, Inc. and LifeWatch Technologies,
Inc. (Instromedix) is an independent provider of ambulatory cardiac
monitoring services and a manufacturer and distributor of ambulatory
cardiac and vital signs monitoring devices in the United States. Its
current services are used by physicians primarily to monitor patients
who are suspected of having heart rhythm disorders, or cardiac
arrhythmias, and its products are used by itself and by others in
connection with providing cardiac monitoring services. For more
information, visit: www.lifewatch.com.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest
wireless voice and data network, serving more than 80 million
customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than
85,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD).
For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and
request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of
Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless
Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

This press release includes forward-looking statements. All
statements other than statements of historical facts contained in
this press release, including statements regarding future results of
operations and financial position, business strategy and plans and
objectives for future operations, are forward- looking statements.
The words "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue,"
"anticipate," "intend," "expect" and similar expressions are intended
to identify forward-looking statements. LifeWatch AG has based these
forward- looking statements largely on current expectations and
projections about future events and financial trends that it believes
may affect the financial condition, results of operations, business
strategy, short term and long term business operations and
objectives, and financial needs. These forward-looking statements are
subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. In light
of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking
events and circumstances described may not occur and actual results
could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or
implied in the forward- looking statements. All forward-looking
statements are based only on data available to LifeWatch AG at the
time of the issue of this press release. LifeWatch AG does not
undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements
contained in this press release as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.

THIS PRESS RELEASE IS NOT BEING ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND SHOULD NOT BE DISTRIBUTED TO UNITED STATES PERSONS OR
PUBLICATIONS WITH A GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS
PRESS RELEASE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OF SECURITIES OF LIFEWATCH
AG OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES OR AN
INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE FOR OR PURCHASE ANY SECURITIES OF LIFEWATCH
AG OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES IN THE UNITED STATES. IN ADDITION, THE
SECURITIES OF LIFEWATCH AG AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES HAVE NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE
OFFERED, SOLD OR DELIVERED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S.
PERSONS ABSENT REGISTRATION UNDER OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS. ANY
PUBLIC OFFERING OF SECURITIES TO BE MADE IN THE UNITED STATES WILL BE
MADE BY MEANS OF A PROSPECTUS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM LIFEWATCH AG
OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AS APPLICABLE, AND WILL CONTAIN DETAILED
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ISSUER AND ITS MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS OF THE ISSUER.

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Further inquiry note:

Kobi Ben Efraim, Chief Financial Officer, LifeWatch AG:

Tel +41 52 632 00 50 | Fax +41 52 632 00 51

E-mail kobibe@cardguard.com

Sensus Investor & Public Relations, Zürich:

Tel +41 43 366 55 11 | Fax +41 43 366 55 12

E-mail lifewatch@sensus.ch

Verizon Wireless:

Carolyn A. Schamberger, APR

Tel 847-619-4282

E-mail carolyn.schamberger1@verizonwireless.com

Branche: Healthcare Providers
ISIN: CH0012815459
WKN: 1281545
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