Tag: dutch
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Charlie robot new best buddy for kids with diabetes
Cheeky Ruben is just seven and learning to read. Such skills could be life-savers for the blonde Dutch boy diagnosed with childhood diabetes just over a year ago. There are roughly some 6,000 children across The Netherlands with Type 1 childhood diabetes.
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China healthcare costs forcing patients into crippling debt
By Adam Jourdan and Ben Hirschler SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – As China's medical bills rise steeply, outpacing government insurance provision, patients and their families are increasingly turning to loans to pay for healthcare, adding to the country's growing burden of consumer debt. While public health insurance reaches nearly all of China's 1.4 billion people, its coverage…
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Exclusive: WellCare, Centene make offers for Aetna assets – sources
By Carl O'Donnell and Caroline Humer (Reuters) – WellCare Health Plans Inc and Centene Corp have made competing offers for the Medicare Advantage insurance plans that Aetna Inc looks to shed in seeking clearance for its acquisition of Humana Inc , people familiar with the matter said. The potential divestiture is a central pillar of…
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Sanders’ TPP stance shot down by Democrats’ platform committee
By Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A trade deal fight led by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday failed to fully materialize as rival and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton announced a compromise to expand mandatory healthcare funding over the next decade. At a meeting of the Democratic Party draft platform committee in Orlando,…
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Man admits killing Dutch ex-minister over euthanasia law
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A man accused of killing a former Dutch health minister admitted the slaying at a court hearing Thursday, claiming it was an “order from God” because she was responsible for the Netherlands' euthanasia law.