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UK medical device maker has long been seen as a potential target for bigger US rivals
Medical device merger makes sense in context of an ageing industry
US budgetary impasse might have a silver lining
Manufacturers should tremble when the government threatens to tighten the leash
The industry once seemed to have it all
Shares in the orthopaedic device maker jumped 9.1 per cent to 662p
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