Apricus Biosciences Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results Conference Call (AcT)

Conference Call/Webcast to Be Held Friday, May 10, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. ET

SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apricus Biosciences, Inc. ("Apricus Bio" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:APRI) (www.apricusbio.com) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2013 financial results and recent corporate highlights on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. ET. The Company expects to file its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, May 10, 2013.

The call can be accessed in the U.S. by dialing 877-407-9210 and outside of the U.S. by dialing 201-689-8049 and asking the conference operator for the Apricus Bio Conference Call. The conference call will also be webcast live at http://www.investorcalendar.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=170957. The teleconference replay will be available for one week by dialing in the U.S. 877-660-6853 and outside of the U.S. by dialing 201-612-7415. Replay Passcode 413843 is required for playback. The webcast replay will be available for three months.

About Apricus Biosciences, Inc.

Apricus Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:APRI) is a pharmaceutical company that develops and markets innovative treatments that help large patient populations across numerous, large-market therapeutic classes including male and female sexual health. The Company has one approved product, Vitaros®, for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, which will be marketed in Canada by Abbott Laboratories, and Femprox®, a product candidate, for the treatment of female sexual arousal disorder, which successfully completed one approximately 400-patient Phase III study in China.

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