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Materials

Nanoparticle Research: Points to Energy Savings Magnetic Nanoparticles: Combat Cancer

Innovations

Lung Surgery: Modified Technique Further Reduces Pain Cancer: Monitoring Blood Flow Helps Improve Prostate Biopsies

Special: Thin Films

Turbines, wafers, chips - they can be coated with razor-thin films hence changing properties. Technologies for creating thin films have arrived in medicine, too.

More about thin films can be read in COMPAMED.de's Special.

Special: Thin Films - Read more on our Special!

Business

Health: Medics to Consider Cost-Benefit-Relation Ventilators: In the Focus of Research

COMPAMED News

Success: 35 percent more exhibitors, 45 percent more space! COMPAMED: Insights in Medical Technology of Tomorrow

MEDICA and COMPAMED 2007: previous year’s level maintained

The manufacturers of medical products and medical technology are the driving force behind growth for the future sector of the health industry. Their innovative products and systems are making an increasingly important contribution to improving the efficiency and quality of patient care. The specialist world consisting of doctors’ surgeries, clinics, laboratories, the trade and industry, seized the opportunity and was present in Düsseldorf in impressive numbers. Over the four days of the fair, the events still attracted approx. 137,000 trade visitors from around 100 countries to the Rhine.
MEDICA and COMPAMED 2007: previous year’s level maintained - More about the Final Press Release