CHICAGOAs the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes. This is therapy in a newborn intensive care unit, ...

Joanna Bereaud rolled her cart down the hospital hallway. A patient was waiting for her treatment — delivered by maraca and drum. Bereaud, a music therapist at Boston Children’s Hospital, carries a ...

In the summer of 2024, Lacy Beane woke up in the ICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The 32-year-old had been in a coma for weeks, slowly recovering after a severe case of sepsis had led to multisystem ...

MIAMI (AP) — It was early afternoon on the first day of October at the Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, and Elizabeth Foley’s room was quiet. Amy Foley, Elizabeth’s mom, leaned over her 2-year-old ...

Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston is marking 10 years of its music therapy program. The program involves the clinical use of music in a medical setting to accomplish therapeutic goals such as ...

Joanna Bereaud rolled her cart down the hospital’s hallway. A patient was waiting for her treatment — delivered by maraca and drum. Bereaud, a music therapist at Boston Children’s Hospital, carries a ...

There’s a change underway in some hospitals around the country where, increasingly, art is used as a tool for healing. At Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, patients receiving art, music or dance ...

Music therapy is now available at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, providing patients with a clinically-based therapy offering a wide range of benefits, including improving movement, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We work to tell stories about people who are building a better Bay Area, which includes efforts to keep our kids happy, even when they're in the hospital. A Los Gatos family ...

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Marvin Sherzer didn’t touch the piano keys for more than four decades. Today, the 67-year-old certified music practitioner provides soothing sounds to patients recovering at ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — A new music therapy room at a hospital on Florida’s Gulf Coast is being named for AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson. Johnson and other rock stars have supported an effort to buy music ...