Medica 2006

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 Exhibitors + Videos

Coex | Crosstex International | DCA Design International | Fluke Biomedical | Ortho Medical | Productos Herbitas | Rossmax Medical | Tyumen Mediko | Winner Medical Group | Xiril

 News

• Position as Global Hub for the Medical Sector Impressively Confirmed
  The world’s largest medical fair MEDICA plus ComPaMED, leading international trade fair for upstream supplies in medical production, have impressively confirmed their position as the global hub in the medical sector.
  
  
• MEDICA and ComPaMED 2006: World's Largest Trade Fair for Medicine Fit as a Fiddle in Düsseldorf
  4,600 exhibitors from 65 nations
  
  
• Smoking: Cessation Therapy Harmful for Intensive Care Patients
  A common smoking cessation therapy used to help reduce adverse events associated with nicotine withdrawal may actually increase the risk of death for smokers admitted to the intensive care unit.
  
  
• Osteoporosis: Depression can Lead to Fractures
  A study shows that depression can cause a loss of bone mass, leading to osteoporosis and fractures. The use of an anti-depressant drug halts not only the depression itself but also the loss of bone density.
  
  
• Düsseldorf: The World of Nano-Technology meets in June 2007
  Europe’s largest professional conference for nano-technology is coming to Düsseldorf. 1,500 participants are expected at the CCD. Congress Center Düsseldorf from 19 to 21 June 2007.
  
  
• Special: IT
  A hundred years ago doctors used to work with stethoscope and instruments in a leather bag. Today they use laptops and touch-screens. IT is the topic of our Special on MEDICA.de in which information technology is in the focus.
  
  
• AIDS: HIV gets a Makeover
  Using a combination of genetic engineering and forced adaptation researchers have created a version of the AIDS virus that replicates vigorously in both human and monkey cells. It could change the way in which AIDS vaccine and therapeutics research is done.
  
  
• Study: Black Tea Soothes Away Stress
  Daily cups of tea can help people recover more quickly from the stresses of everyday life, according to a new study. Black tea helps speed up the recovery from stressful situations.
  
  
• Attractive Focal Themes: Congress and Special Shows
  The attractive focal themes of MEDICA include not only the exhibitors’ ranges and special shows such as MEDICA MEDIA (telemedicine), MEDICA meet.IT (IT systems) or the Physiotherapy Forum but also the MEDICA Congress previously attracting just under 10,000 participants and the “Deutsche...
  
  
• MEDICA & ComPaMED: Increased Demand, especially in Europe
  The world’s largest medical trade fair, MEDICA, and the leading international fair for supplies for medical manufacturing, ComPaMED, both continue to develop well at their “homebase” in Düsseldorf!
  
  
• Telematics: The “Backbone” of Multi-Sector Cooperation
  Since its launch in 1998 MEDICA MEDIA has firmly established itself as a multi-discipline and application-orientated information and communication forum held within the scope of the world’s largest medical fair, MEDICA, which is staged every year in Düsseldorf.
  
  
• Aging: Exercising After 40 Can Still Stave Off Heart Disease
  Couch potatoes who start exercising in later life can still significantly cut their chances of developing coronary artery disease, suggests a small study published in “Heart”. The authors base their findings on 312 adults between the ages of 40 and 68 who had confirmed coronary artery...
  
  
• Heart Disease: New Factors Do Not Improve Risk Assessment
  Routinely screening for C-Reactive Proteins (CRP) and performing other novel tests has little value when assessing risk for coronary heart disease, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
  
  
• Diet: Mushrooms Are Good Antioxidant Source
  Portabella and crimini mushrooms rank with carrots, green beans, red peppers and broccoli as good sources of dietary antioxidants, researchers say. Keep up with colourful veggies in terms of antioxidants: mushrooms
  
  
• Astronauts: Gravity Chamber May Prevent Kidney Stones
  Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified a way for astronauts to reduce their risk of developing kidney stones while in space. Astronauts lose calcium in their bones and strength in their muscles while in space because of the zero-gravity environment. This calcium can...
  
  
• MEDICA Internet Portal Registers over 1 Million Visits for the First Time
  ComPaMED Portal also Boasts an Excellent Start Internet – an ever more important tool for preparing the trade fair (RTF download at the bottom of this page) For the first time ever, the portal MEDICA.de (http://www.medica.de), the joint Internet website for the world’s largest...
  
  
• ComPaMED 2006: Hightech for Medical Devices
  The international exhibition leader for supplies to the medical manufacturing sector (boasting approx. 300 exhibitors and 9,000 trade visitors in 2005), ComPaMED, held in parallel with MEDICA, will this year place special emphasis on the areas of micro-system technologies and nano...
  
  

• CPhI 2006 France / Roissy
• CPhI 2007 Italy / Milan


• ExpoFarmacia 2007 Argentina / Buenos Aires
• Expomedical 2007 Argentina / Buenos Aires


• Expopharm 2006 Germany / Munich
• Expopharm 2007 Germany / Munich


• Hospitalar 2007 Brazil / Sao Paulo
• Interphex 2007 USA / New York


• MD&M East Show 2007 USA / New York
• Medica 2007 Germany / Düsseldorf