Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center Of Boston, Inc.

This study looked at whether music therapy can help reduce the amount of strong painkillers (opioids) needed by patients recovering from heart surgery. 54 adults who had open-heart surgery took part. The goal was to see if adding music to standard pain care could lower opioid use…

This study looked at 186 people with hearing loss to understand why some struggle to understand speech even with hearing aids. Researchers measured how inner ear sensory cells and auditory nerve cells affect speech clarity in quiet and noisy settings. The goal is to better predic…