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Patients and music therapists enjoy a luau party, one of several week-long activities to showcase how music therapy makes a positive difference in the lives of patients and families at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital this past week. Pictured left to right, clockwise: Near center and sporting star-shaped glasses, Dylan Kelley; D’Anna Kelly (w/microphone); Rebecca Williams (headband); music therapist Melinda Ng (with ukelele); therapist Evan Privoznik (in back, with sunglasses); therapist Evelyn Laguardia (flowered hat); Maggie Montez (in hospital gown); Victoria Meyzen (heart-shaped glasses); Ranset Cordovi. Read more here…

ONTARIO — Jonas Routtu is a quiet and reserved 16-year-old who has a love for music. He may not say a lot and prefers to keep to himself, but the Ontario teen has persevered over the last several months with a successful battle against Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Wednesday marked his last chemotherapy treatment at the Infusion Clinic at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Ontario. Read more here…

Patients and music therapists enjoy a luau party, one of several week-long activities to showcase how music therapy makes a positive difference in the lives of patients and families at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital this past week. Pictured left to right, clockwise: Near center and sporting star-shaped glasses, Dylan Kelley; D’Anna Kelly (w/microphone); Rebecca Williams (headband); music therapist Melinda Ng (with ukelele); therapist Evan Privoznik (in back, with sunglasses); therapist Evelyn Laguardia (flowered hat); Maggie Montez (in hospital gown); Victoria Meyzen (heart-shaped glasses); Ranset Cordovi. Read more here…

Simon came down to visit the Nordoff Robbins Andrew Lloyd Webber Music Therapy unit and the BRIT School ahead of receiving his award at the 24th Music Industry Trusts Award on Monday 2 November in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the music and entertainment industry and many charitable causes. Read more here…

The Sam Houston State School of Music is hosting a songwriter’s showcase featuring guest artist Monique Van Bruggen next Monday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the James and Nancy Gaertner Preforming Arts Center Recital Hall. Read more here…

When a 9-millimeter bullet ripped through U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s skull and tore across the left side of her brain, it caused extensive damage in the part that controls language. After the attempted assassination, she lost her ability to speak. Read more here…

The Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to install a centralised music system at the state-run MY hospital to play therapeutic music for patients has not gone down well with the doctors at the medical facility. Read more here…

LOS ANGELES — Can music really soothe the savage beast? A veterinarian in North Canton, Ohio, thinks so. Dr. Pamela Fisher has put music in more than 1,100 animal shelters, saying that it calms dogs and cats, and even cuts down on barking. Read more here…

Children are beautiful; they are cheerful, noble and filled with happiness, but they also jump, shout, cry, kick and when more than 30 of them are together, the situation is twice as complicated. That is the scene that Guanacaste’s public school teachers have to face day after day; although they have the responsibility to do so, it usuallyproduces stress and tension. Read more here…

Dementia experts are calling for music therapy to be available on prescription for people with dementia. They want clinicians to use music to reawaken and stimulate the brain and focus less on pharmalogical interventions. Read more here…