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LOUISVILLE, Ky. —A patient fighting cancer at Norton Healthcare is making it his mission to bring joy to fellow patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments. His music is impacting everyone on the hospital floor. Read more here…

If Anchorage Symphony Orchestra violinist Daniel Perry had been told a few weeks ago he would be chanting healing songs in front of an intimate crowd of people, he might not have believed it. Read more here…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Last week Arthur Kuck celebrated a birthday. His daughter brought ribs and cake, and trimmed his fluffy white hair. His friends sang “Happy Birthday” and gave him a round of applause. His wife squeezed his hand and said proudly, “Ninety-one.” Read more here…

ITHACA, NY — The Ithaca College Gerontology Institute and Music & Memory — a nonprofit organization that helps improve the quality of life for people with dementia by bringing personalized music into their lives — have teamed up to use the therapeutic power of music to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from dementia in the local community. Read more here…

December 13, 2015 (El Cajon) – Music heals the mind, body and spirit.  The healing power of music has been harnessed in Europe through a method called “Tune & Heal” by Dr. Barbara Romanowska who established the Sound Academy (Akademia Dzwieku) in Poland in 2004.  Writing as Barbara Angel, she is the author and teacher of the In-Depth Cellular Music Therapy Method on which the method is founded. Read more here…

Music touches us in so many ways – evoking emotions, memories, even physical reactions. And it has the power to heal, says Chris Brandt. He’s the executive director with the charity Music Heals, which works to raise money and awareness for music therapy programs. What’s music therapy? The use of music for the clinical goal of restoring and maintaining mental, emotional, and physical health. Read more here…

By now, you’ve probably seen or heard the video. An elderly man, in the throes of late stage dementia, is slumped over a wheelchair, unresponsive. When the nursing home staff gives him headphones and play familiar music from decades before on an iPod, he literally comes alive. He sits up, smiles, begins moving his head and hands, and flawlessly sings the lyrics to songs he hasn’t heard in 40 years. Read more here…

Carefee Living, a Spectrum Health Company assisted living facility in Cook, has been certified as a Music & Memory facility. It is the company’s first such designation in Minnesota. Carefree Living sites also are in Aurora, Babbitt, Brainerd, Burnsville, Ely, Orr, Silver Bay and St. Cloud. Read more here…

A nervous freshman who just graduated from Loara High School in Anaheim, Majesca Wong attended her very first class at California State University, Northridge in fall 2014. At the end of the class, she felt overwhelmed by the extensive coursework outlined in the requirements for her major, music therapy. Read more here…

A resident of the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Dalphne Sommario travels more than 200 miles every week to work with the young women at Maryville’s suburban Bartlett Campus. “Depending on traffic and weather conditions, the trip can range from 1 hour to 2 ½ hours each way,” Dalphne said. “If I take a train from Union Station, that’s an hour-long ride each way.” What inspires a city girl to journey to the far-flung suburbs twice a week?. Read more here…