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Arts and Health News

Arts and Health News

Our location for news on healthcare issues, especially as they relate to the contribution of the arts and the importance of family-centred care.

WHO studies the link between arts and health

Artistic Interest lengthens the lifespan

A 2020 vision for expressive arts therapy

Music as medicine studied in treatment of strokes, depression and Alzheimer's

Doctors Now Prescribing Music Therapy for Heart Ailments, Brain Dysfunction, Learning Disabilities, Depression, PTSD, Alzheimers, Childhood Development and More

Music Therapy In NICUs Can Help Babies Get Home Sooner

Hospitals explore the contribution of art to health and wellbeing in hospitals

Meet the musicians playing in hospital stairwells helping patients heal

Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

Could this song ease YOUR pre-surgery anxiety?

Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing

Research into arts and nursing

Kind doctors have healthier patients

The Sound of Healing

The Art of Life - ABC Radio at Brisbane Children's Hospital

How art is inspiring better health and wellbeing

Integrating the humanities and arts into medical training

Can the Arts Help Critical-Care Health Professionals Cope?

Just What the Doctor Ordered (Literally): A Trip to the Art Museum

Participating in the arts creates paths to healthy aging

New strategy will focus on the benefits of the arts in healthcare

Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness Through Music

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A British 'social prescribing' initiative

How important is creative and cultural participation to our wellbeing?

Therapy Imitating Art: improving mental health through creativity

‘Mindful Physicians’ aim to know patients’ whole stories

How creativity on prescription can improve mental and physical health

'Creativity improves wellbeing': art transforms mental health ward

'It's time to recognise the contribution arts can make to health and wellbeing'

Premedly - Arts in Medicine

mosaic-making is healing

Uplifting hospital experience

The arts, professional well-being, and patient centred care: they all go together in a good medical education.

Singing 'can help post-natal depression'

Music' Healing Power

Music in human evolution and modern-day society

'It's time to recognise the contribution arts can make to health and wellbeing'

Sing 'til you're grinning

New guide encourages cooperation between arst and health sector

Art and science join forces at the inaugural Big Anxiety Festival

Participation in cultural events can improve health in older people

Red Room

Music Makes a Difference in Aged Care and Other Health Settings

Daisy Foncourt blogs for OUP on the Value of the Arts in Health and Medicine

Music Improves Surgery

A young amputee struts his stuff on the footy field

The Value of Arts in Recovery

The Alchemy Choir hepls Canberrans with dementia

Ancient Singing Helps Trauma