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

This study looked at whether listening to music could help heart surgery patients need less strong pain medicine. 54 adults who had heart surgery through a cut in the chest took part. The main goal was to see if music therapy lowered the amount of opioid painkillers they used.

This study looked at 186 people with mild to moderate hearing loss to understand why some struggle to understand speech even with hearing aids. Researchers measured how inner ear sensory cells and auditory nerves contribute to speech clarity. The goal was to find better ways to p…