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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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Stryker, Halo to get second chance at enhanced patent damages
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said federal judges should have more discretion to boost penalties in patent infringement cases and ordered an appeals court to review whether Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc willfully violated Stryker Corp patents on a surgical cleaning wand. In a unanimous opinion, the high…