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Research in Music Healing Runs from Birth forward…

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments

For anyone wanting to know how music can be used for healing or for wellness, there are hundreds of studies in libraries, journals and on the internet. I thought my readers might enjoy seeing just a sampling of some of the published studies from 2009. These studies run the gamut from pregnancy and [...]

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Apollo, God of Music and Medicine

September 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Apollo, God of Music and Medicine
When I first started my website, www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com, way back in 1999, one of my first thoughts was to have a theme that would say music and medicine, music as medicine, music for healing, and sound as healing, wordlessly. I thought first of Apollo who was the Greek god of [...]

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Harpists Bring Comfort to the Dying

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve been writing about music’s healing power for over 12 years now and I have seen the public’s awareness of the power grow and grow. Today, many hospitals have music therapy departments and the average person knows what is meant by music therapy, music healing, and music medicine.
Almost daily, there are articles about all [...]

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Michael Jackson, Music, and Anesthesia

July 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

When I started this blog a little over a year ago, I certainly never thought there would be a connection between Michael Jackson, music and anesthesia. And yet, in the final hours of his life, it was quite possibly a dose (or overdose) of one of the most potent anesthetics available; the drug is Propofol, known by its commercial name of Diprovan.

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Music, the ear, and your mood

January 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Many people have blogged about the importance of music to our workouts. There has been a lot of research about the effect of music on mood and even matching tempo to heart rate. There also appears to be a magic number for volume; Spinal Tap had it right all along.
Dr. Neil Todd and his team [...]

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Music and Prostate Cancer: One Man’s Story

December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Music and Prostate Cancer: One Man’s Story
By Dana Jennings
I have prostate cancer, and sometimes I get mad. Not upset. Not annoyed. Not nettled. Mad. This isn’t mere “why me” moaning. My rage is pure and primal, like that of a wolf caught in a steel trap.
Dana Jennings. (Lonnie Schlein/The New York Times)
My anger, though, doesn’t [...]

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Dr. Cash speaks to Kentucky Holistic Nurses Association

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight I spoke to a delightful audience of holistic nurses about the use of music in a clinical setting.  The nurses were amazed to find out how simple and yet powerful music can be in an ER, an OR, a neonatal nursery or a hospice unit.  Music is one of the oldest means for healing [...]

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