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Miles Davis fans should check out this amazing new vinyl box set
Miles Davis was always moving forward, never content to rest on his lofty laurels. Thus, after fashioning some of the greatest acoustic jazz recordings of all time in the ’50s and ’60s, the great trumpeter “plugged in” with 1969’s “In a Silent Way.” The result is widely considered the start of the jazz master’s “electric…
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Suspect in French teacher’s slaying was held for questioning the day before attack, minister says
A man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded two others on Friday at a high school in northern France, an attack being investigated as potential terrorism.
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Thousands got Exactech knee or hip replacements. Then, patients say, the parts began to fail
Fred Schulte, KFF Health News | KFF Health News (TNS) Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018 would last two decades — perhaps longer. Yet in just three years, the Optetrak implant manufactured by Exactech in Gainesville, Florida, had worn out and had to be replaced — a…
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What to watch: ‘House of Usher’ is a brilliant, unsettling take on Edgar Allan Poe
Two of the most anticipated streaming series of the season — Netflix’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” — originated from the literary world. But does that transition from page to screen work? Oh, yeah. Here’s our roundup. “The Fall of the House of Usher”: It’s risky to…
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Feds rein in use of predictive software that limits care for Medicare Advantage patients
Susan Jaffe | KFF Health News (TNS) Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in March when she got surprising news from her Medicare Advantage plan: It would no longer pay for her care because she was well enough to go home. At the time, she could not walk more…
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Review: ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ among greatest concert films of all time
Taylor Swift has triumphed yet again. Yet, she’s done so in a way that is different than ever before, delivering fans a career-spanning major theatrical release that ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest concert films ever made. The Sam Wrench-directed offering — which hit theaters this week and is expected to quickly…
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Feds hope to cut sepsis deaths by hitching Medicare payments to treatment stats
Julie Appleby, KFF Health News | (TNS) KFF Health News Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he arrived at the emergency room with…
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Narcan, now available without a prescription, can still be hard to get
Jackie Fortiér, LAist and Nicole Leonard, WHYY | (TNS) KFF Health News Last month, drugstores and pharmacies nationwide began stocking and selling the country’s first over-the-counter version of naloxone, a medication that can stop a potentially fatal overdose from opioids. It’s sold as a nasal spray under the brand name Narcan. Coming off a year…
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1 person dies when SUV lands in water at California state park beach
The parking lot sits about 100 feet above the ocean.
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Movies that have delayed theatrical debut due to Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie
Due to the level of fame that is expected, several movies delayed or expedited their theatrical debuts in order to not compete with “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.”
