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Cancer Center. PHILADELPHIA, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced a $50,000 gift from seven-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift, which will be used to create specialized programming for teens with cancer treated at CHOP’s Cancer Center. The first initiative will be to establish a high-tech music therapy cart for teens to create and produce their own music while they go through cancer treatment. Read more here…

Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the conventional weapons used to battle cancer, but now Greenville Health System is adding music therapy to the mix. Read more here…

Garrett Willner was almost 4 years old when he sang his first words. His mother, Joy Willner, was worried he might never talk. Then, one day during an afternoon bath, Garrett opened his mouth and began to sing “C is for Cookie” from the popular children’s TV show sesame street. Read more here…

Music therapist Kate Beever met with a client once who refused to take his medications. The man, in his late 60s, was hospitalized with prostate cancer and reluctant to interact with the medical providers trying to help him.  Read more here…

Anyone who has blasted Arcade Fire before a party can attest to music’s transformative powers. But music isn’t just a mood-booster: Music therapists use pitch, rhythm, melody and lyrics in specific ways, with the explicit intent of affecting cognition or emotion in the person who is hearing them.  Read more here…

DEARBORN — Recent studies and books have determined that music and art bring healing and social benefits to all ages, especially older adults. In the book, “Bringing the Arts to Life,” funded by the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation, author Judy Rollins offers a guide to the arts and long-term care.  Read more here…

During the last years of James Jenkins’ life, his son, James Jenkins Jr., who is principal tuba player with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, would often visit his father in hospitals in Waycross, Ga.  Read more here…

A musical therapist who works with terminally ill children and their families at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has begun creating musical memories using the heartbeats of dying patients. Read more here…

As 14-year-old Dylan Bennett lay dying in the intensive care unit of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Brian Schreck recorded his heartbeat. He then paired rhythmic thumping with some of Dylan’s favorite music to create a song for the Bennetts to keep. Read more here…

I think this is a planet of compassion. It’s like a humongous university and we all major in some subject until we learn it. I’m grateful that he’s alive. I still feel bad for what happened and the people that he hurt. He had to go to San Quentin for what he did. And I can’t bring that person back. I only hope they can see that I’m trying to bring some sort of healing to all parties. Music is a healing force. Read more here…