Middlefield Healthcare & Life Sciences Dividend Fund (TSX:LS.UN) announces a share repurchase program. Under the normal course issuer bid, the company will repurchase up to 618,990 units, representing 9.99% of its issued and outstanding share capital. The shares purchased under the bid will be held in treasury or resold. The company has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange for the bid. The bid will run for a period of 12 months commencing on November 7, 2018 and will terminate on November 6, 2019. As of October 23, 2018, the company had 6,197,901 shares in issue.