Sing More, Snore Less

Tone flabby airways–even if you can’t carry a tune
By Barbara Loecher , Barbara Loecher is a senior editor for Prevention.
Singing may help snorers, and their bed partners, enjoy more silent nights.
Twenty chronic snorers, ages 36 to 62, practiced singing techniques and exercises 20 minutes every day for 3 months. Researchers at the University of Exeter [...]

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Music to Have Surgery By

Soothing tunes make pre- and post-op less stressful
By Sari N. Harrar , Sarí N. Harrar, former health news editor at Prevention, is a freelance writer specializing in health, science, and medicine.
Is there an injection, medical test, or surgical procedure in your future? Defuse anxiety and promote healing with simple tools: a portable tape or CD [...]

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Drum Up Your Immunity

Do-it-yourself music therapy may boost your body’s defense system
By Sara Altshul , Former Prevention alternative medicine editor Sara Altshul is now a freelance writer based in Rome, Italy.
It may not sound like medicine, but the rhythmic thumping of drums may do wonders for your health. Researchers from the Mind-Body Wellness Center in Meadville, PA, and [...]

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Music as Medicine

Got pain? Got the blues? Try the music cure
By Sari N. Harrar , Sarí N. Harrar, former health news editor at Prevention, is a freelance writer specializing in health, science, and medicine.
Intro
A 79-year-old stroke survivor learns to walk again as the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” guides his legs.
A woman with terrible insomnia now slips [...]

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Choose Your Medicine: Laughter, Music, Optimism

 
11 ways to knock out stress and lower your chance of heart disease
By Therese Droste , Therese Droste is a freelance health and fitness writer based in Washington, DC.
Stress: The word lingers like a threatening hiss. And that’s appropriate, because too much stress, over time, can cause you to acquire risk factors–diabetes, high cholesterol, and [...]

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Why Music Heals

How those tunes we enjoy are more than just a good listen
By Sari N. Harrar , Sarí N. Harrar, former health news editor at Prevention, is a freelance writer specializing in health, science, and medicine.
No one’s sure exactly how music heals, but it looks like our brains are wired to respond to it.
“There’s something intrinsically [...]

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Sonic Health Boost

Cutting edge research reveals how music can help you ease pain, think smarter, feel energized, and fight disease

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After years of drifting from one ineffective treatment to another, Andrea Bowen is rhapsodic about the one that finally relieved her chronic back problems: music therapy.“It was [...]

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Love of Music a Rare and Surprising Side effect of Surgery

In this excerpt from his new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks recalls a patient who developed a passion for music following a brain tumor operation.
I have occasionally had patients with a sudden onset of musical or artistic interests-including Salimah M., a research chemist. In her early forties, Salimah started [...]

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Beverly Sills ~ RoleModel

Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Published: July 3, 2007
Beverly Sills in 2002, after coming out of retirement as chairwoman of Lincoln Center to lead the Metropolitan Opera
Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano who was more popular with the American public than any opera singer since Enrico Caruso, even among [...]

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