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ROSEBURG, Ore. — At Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg they’re using music to heal. Mercy officials say playing music in medical settings is beneficial. “We know that music and healing in studies is a proven fact,” says volunteer services director Michelle Kronner. “It helps people just feel better.” That’s the reason Karen Cordell volunteers her time to play. “I think music reaches deep into the soul where nothing else does,” says Cordell, president of the Roseburg Accordion Club. Read more here…

THANE: Seven years ago, Dhokali resident Snehalkumar Gaikwad (27) was suffering from clinical depression. He used to lock himself up at home and preferred to live an isolated life. Gaikwad used to avoid mixing about with his peers and always lived aloof. But now Gaikwad has successfully managed to overcome this problem—thanks to music therapy. Read more here…

The St. Louis Symphony and Maryville University collaborated to create an 8-week music therapy program called “Life Compositions” to help students at Confluence Academy Old North deal with the challenges and trauma of growing up in urban neighborhoods. Graduate students in Maryville’s music therapy program worked with the youth to write and record songs, which they will highlight in a concert titled “Courage Counts” on June 4. Read more here…

Listen to this “Cityscape” segment at noon Friday; this story will be updated after the show. You can listen live online. The St. Louis Symphony and Maryville University collaborated to create an 8-week music therapy program called “Life Compositions” to help students at Confluence Academy Old North deal with challenges and trauma.
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A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. Katy Meiklem, from Fife, suffered progressive ill health for seven years, with constant severe pain, restricted mobility and psoriasis which caused rashes all over her body. Read more here…

He has made a career out of tailoring people’s taste in music to create individualized streams using Pandora’s Music Genome Project, and now he is using that experience to help treat the symptoms of cancer patients with a specific type of music therapy. Read more here…

The sound of music is bringing joy and triggering positive behaviors in the homes of music therapy patients throughout the Mercer-Bucks area. Allison Pindale of Yardley, Pa., is one music therapist who makes it happen.
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The band have supported charity Nordoff Robbins for a number of years and performed their song Love Is All Around This is the heartwarming moment Wet Wet Wet performed one of their biggest hits – helped by an 11-year-old boy with autism. Read more here…

Pandora musicologist Nolan Gasser has teamed up with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to combine the streaming platform’s powerful algorithm with music therapy theories in hopes of finding music that could alleviate the pain and discomfort of those suffering from cancer. Read more here…

Ysaye Barnwell didn’t plan to end up in Ferguson. Her vocal workshop was supposed to be held in nearby St. Louis, but it was going to conflict with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and had to be moved. And so the Washington singer and composer found herself in mid-March in the headline-making Missouri city that had been on her mind for weeks. Before there was Baltimore, there was Ferguson, and she had found an aspect of the protests there puzzling.
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