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flexSCAN and myWellness360 Featured on NBC4.TV; NBC4 Los Angeles Airs Comprehensive Story About flexSCAN's Corporate Disease Screening Services

Posted on: Monday, 8 May 2006, 18:06 CDT

flexSCAN's (OTCBB:FXSC) myWellness360 disease screening services received news coverage on NBC4 Los Angeles (General Electric (NYSE:GE)) Friday, May 5. The three-minute segment reported by NBC4 News Anchor/Reporter Kelly Mack aired during the popular "Today in LA" morning program and their 5 p.m. news broadcast.

The news report provided an in-depth profile about flexSCAN's myWellness360 (www.mywellness360.com). This revolutionary new corporate health screening benefit is now available to employees under a pre-tax plan through their employer. flexSCAN recently hit an important milestone of 110,000 employees in the enrollment pool for myWellness360 services. The employees came from 35 signed employers from a mix of private and public companies, public and private schools, municipalities, public service offices, auto dealerships, and other businesses.

Mike Reynolds, flexSCAN's COO, told NBC's Mack, "We're going to do an EKG, blood pressure, cholesterol testing, collect all that information so we get a really well-rounded idea of what's going on with you in your current state."

It was further reported that all of the medical information is stored in a password-protected personal electronic file on a secure Web site, which only the employee can access. Included in the program is a diagnostic body scan. The patient reclines on an adjustable bed and passes through an ultra-fast electron beam "CT" scanner, which takes thousands of cross-section X-rays of the torso. The body scan can pick up tumors, clogged arteries and other potentially life-threatening abnormalities.

In a dramatic moment in the story myWellness360 client Richard Cushman of Corona Del Mar, Calif., who had a full-body CT scan, told the reporter that his life was saved when myWellness360 uncovered a cancerous tumor the size of a baseball on his kidney. "With that kind of cancer, with kidney cancer, there's no way to know," said Cushman. "A lot of times there's no symptoms whatsoever, so I was very fortunate. It saved my life."

"People are now recognizing the important role our services could play in helping employers drive down the astronomical cost of healthcare in America," said Thomas Banks, flexSCAN Inc. CEO and president. "I anticipate more opportunities like the NBC story and I expect that coverage like this will help expand the effectiveness of the myWellness360 story getting out to corporate America." Banks went on to say, "Following the NBC4 news segments we had hundreds of unique visitors to our Web site investigating myWellness360."

For information, contact Michael Nason, flexSCAN communications officer. To see a verbatim script from the on-air report go to: http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9163657/detail.html.

Legal notice to investors: Certain matters discussed in this news release are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements, which apply only on the date of this release, generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may,""will,""expects,""intends,""estimates,""anticipates,""believes,""continues" or words of similar import. Similarly, statements that describe flexSCAN's future plans, objectives or goals are also forward-looking statements, which generally involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other facts that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of flexSCAN to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors may include the following: uncertainties associated with product development, the risk that flexSCAN will not obtain approval to market its products, the risk that flexSCAN's products will not gain market acceptance, the risks associated with dependence upon key personnel and the need for additional financing.

Source: Business Wire

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