Medical technology is and shall remain an export hit. The German medical technology industry makes more than two-thirds of its revenue through the business with buyers in other countries. Above all, the medical advancement, the growth of the middle class in emerging countries, an increase in diseases of affluence, which are also present and unchanged in the industrial nations, as well as a total rise of the older population represent constants for the lucrative health business... Read more: statement by Joachim Schäfer