FDA Grants Market Clearance to Aerocrine Inc.'s NIOX MINO®: a New Hand-Held Device to Measure Airway Inflammation in Asthma

FDA Grants Market Clearance to Aerocrine Inc.'s NIOX MINO®: a New Hand-Held
Device to Measure Airway Inflammation in Asthma

NIOX MINO® Set to Dramatically Improve Airway Inflammatory Disease Management
through Personalized Inflammation Control.

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., March 4, 2008 - Aerocrine, Inc. today announced that NIOX
MINO, a hand-held point-of-care device for the measurement of airway
inflammation, has been 510(k) cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA). Physicians in the U.S. now have a highly accurate, non-invasive and
convenient technology that is appropriate for use in a doctor's office,
ultimately helping them improve how they treat asthma patients.

NIOX MINO provides accurate, reproducible and immediate measurement of
fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO), a validated method for assessing
asthma-related airway inflammation. NIOX MINO is the first hand-held device to
measure airway inflammation—an underlying cause of inflammatory airway
diseases—helping physicians improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare
expenditures.

“NIOX MINO answers the need for a user friendly, non-invasive, accurate, and
cost effective tool that enables any physician to monitor the underlying process
of asthma-airway inflammation,” said Peter B. Boggs, M.D., Clinical Professor of
Pediatrics and Medicine, LSU School of Medicine, Shreveport.“ What is important
about this is that the control of airway inflammation is the key to the
successful management of asthma, and this tool makes this possible."

Millions of people living with asthma, including many children, are not
receiving optimal treatment. All patients are different, requiring different
treatments and dosages.  Therefore, airway inflammatory disease management and
control can be significantly improved through ‘personalized' monitoring of the
airway inflammation rather than just symptoms.

Among the benefits of NIOX MINO, physicians will have insights into treatment
efficacy and can better predict a patients' response to therapy and the risk of
an asthma relapse. Moreover, physicians will be able to identify patient
non-compliance with medications, and can adjust the dose of medication based on
individual patients' needs. NIOX MINO is reimbursable in the U.S. through CPT
code 95012. The CPT code only applies to FDA-cleared devices (currently NIOX®,
NIOX® Flex and NIOX MINO).

“Historically, monitoring inflammatory airway diseases such as asthma focused
primarily on measuring symptoms and lung function,” said Trevor Bourke,
Aerocrine, Inc.” The availability of NIOX MINO in the United States represents a
major advance in asthma management, because for the first time, doctors can
measure the underlying inflammation that causes asthma within a few minutes
directly in their offices.”

NIOX MINO offers real-time delivery of accurate FENO measurement results within
minutes.  The device has been used extensively in Europe, where more than one
million FENO measurements have impacted the lives of people living with asthma. 
Its innovative design has won numerous accolades, including a 2005 Medical
Design Excellence Award - the premier awards program in the medical technology
community - in the category of In Vitro Diagnostics.

FENO measurements by NIOX MINO compare favorably to other asthma monitoring
methods in terms of providing accurate and reliable results. FENO measurement is
an earlier metric than spirometry - a test of the lungs' breathing capacity - to
inflammation changes following allergen exposure, making it a more sensitive
marker of the disease.

“NIOX MINO measures something we can't feel until it is raging out of control -
airway inflammation,” said Nancy Sander, president and founder of Allergy &
Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA). With this simple test, patients
and physicians can take a more strategic approach to asthma care with the goal
of using less medication to get maximum results.”

AANMA is a non-profit health organization that builds understanding, provides
practical assistance and helps families breathe easier through education,
advocacy and outreach.  For more information about AANMA, visit
www.breatherville.org.

About Asthma
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory process that leads to airflow limitation and
increased sensitivity to asthma triggers.  More than 22 million people in the
United States are currently affected by asthma. It is one of the most common
chronic diseases of childhood, affecting more than six million children.

Asthma has far-reaching social and economic impacts.  The annual cost of this
disease is estimated to be nearly $18 billion through direct costs of $10
billion, such as hospitalizations, medications and other healthcare costs; and
indirect costs of $8 billion, which include lost earnings due to illness, death
or absenteeism.  In 2002 there were more than 4,000 mortalities due to this
chronic condition. 

Contacts:	
In the U.S.
Trevor Bourke
Aerocrine, Inc.
(866) 275-6469
trevor.bourke@aerocrine.com	

Worldwide
Paul de Potocki
CEO, Aerocrine AB
+46 8 629 07 82
paul.de.potocki@aerocrine.com

About Aerocrine
Aerocrine AB (publ) is a medical technology concern focused on the improved
management and care of patients with airway inflammation. The company markets
NIOX® Flex globally, and also markets NIOX MINO® - which represents a new
generation of hand-held products - in Europe. Both products enable fast and
reliable management of airway inflammation and may therefore play a critical
role in more effective diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of asthma patients.
Aerocrine is based in Sweden with subsidiaries in the US, Germany and the UK.
Aerocrine shares were listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange on 15 June, 2007.

Aerocrine discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities
Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was
submitted for publication at 7:55 a.m. on March the 4th 2008.