UTICA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2006--CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq:CNMD) announced today that it expects to broadcast its fourth quarter 2005 earnings conference call live over the Internet on Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The Company also expects that additional material details related to fourth quarter 2005 earnings, and forward-looking information relative to the Company's expectations on a prospective basis, may be discussed during the call.

This broadcast can be accessed from CONMED's web site at www.conmed.com. Replays of the call will be made available through February 16, 2006. The Company plans to report earnings before the market opens on Thursday, February 9, 2006.

CONMED is a medical technology company with an emphasis on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures and monitoring. The Company's products serve the clinical areas of sports medicine-arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery, vital signs monitoring, endosurgery and endoscopic technologies. Surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, and gastroenterology use our medical devices. Headquartered in Utica, New York, the Company's 3,100 employees distribute its products worldwide from eleven manufacturing locations.

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             Robert Shallish, 315-624-3206

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