Tattoos Across Cultures: Connections With Health, Healing Ancestors, and Cultural Heritage

 Inked Mummies, Linking Tattoo Artists With Their Ancestors by Krista Langlois.  The New York Times. July 5, 2021.  

Creating The Coronavirus Image Is Part Education, Marketing, Psychology, And Art

The Spiky Blob Seen Around The World by Cara Giaimo.  The New York Times.  April 1, 2020.

Art Therapy To Deal With Stress Among Health Professionals

Burnout Is Rampant Among Doctors and Nurses.  Can The Arts Help?  PBS News Hour.  November 5, 2019.

Art In The Hospital: Does It Have Healing Power?

'Fine Art Is Good Medicine':  How Hospitals Around The World Are Experimenting With The Healing Power Of Art by Manchem Wecker.  ArtNet.  July 29, 2019. 

Cultural Activities Reduce Depression

Head To The Movies, Museums To Keep Depression At Bay by Alan Mozes.  Healthday/Medical Xpress.  December 26, 2018. 

Music Connects Salience Network With Other Brain Networks In Alzheimer's Patients

Music May Calm The Agitation Of Alzheimer's.  HealthDay.  April 30, 2018. 

Understanding How Music And Dance Impact The Brain Could Have Implications For Treatment For Parkinson's And Autism

Dance And Music Alter The Brain In Opposite Ways by Tim Newman.  Medical News Today.  October 8, 2016

Creative Arts Foster Healthy Aging

Using The Arts To Promote Healthy Aging By Jane Brody.  New York Times. March 7, 2016

Music May Help Recovery After Surgery; Some Association With Reduction In Pain And The Use Of Painkillers

Your Favorite Music May Boost Post-Op Recovery by Robert Preidt.  Web MD.  August 12, 2015. 

Music Training Shapes Teenage Brain For Language Skills

How Music Training Alters The Teenage Brain.  Northwestern University/Science Daily.  July 20, 2015.

Tango Found To Be Helpful In Improving Balance And Functional Mobility in Parkinson's Disease

Tango Dancing Benefits Parkinson's Patients.  McGill University/Science Daily.  April 13, 2015. 

Visual Beauty Of The Brain Inspires Surgeon/Painter

A Surgeon As Comfortable With A Paintbrush As She Is With A Scalpel by Corey Kilgannon.  The New York Times.  December 11, 2014.

Creating A Healing Hospital Environment Thru Art

More Hospitals Use The Healing Powers Of Public Art by Laura Landro.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 18, 2014.

"Words and Pictures" Film Review: Artist With Rheumatoid Arthritis--Passion And Pain In Each Stroke

Actress, Artist, Sometimes Both At Once by Mekado Murphy.  The New York Times.  May 16, 2014.

Docudrama Mixes Medical and Genetic Science With A Personal History Of Breast Cancer.

On The Trail Of A Gene That Kills by Stephen Holden.  The New York Times.  May 1, 2014.

This is a film review.  The movie is available in theaters and on-demand.

Museums Making Contribution To Health Literacy, Research, Medical Training, And Disease Prevention

Is There A Doctor In The Exhibition?  by Karen Jones.  The New York Times.  March 19, 2014.

Developing visual skills is just one of the areas that museums can contribute to medical training.

Magical Medicine: Tibetan Medicine Seeks to Govern The Body By Tapping The Forces Govern The Heavens--An Exhibition

A Medicine Of Oneness, Body, Soul and Stars by Edward Rothstein.  Exhibition Review.  The New York Times.  March 14, 2014.

A review of the exhibit "Bodies in Balance:  The Art of Tibetan Medicine" with a perceptive discussion of Tibetan medicine and how it differs from western medicine.

A Doctor Bridging Arts And Sciences

A Doctor Bridging Arts And Sciences.  Book Review:  Medicine's Michelangelo:  The Life And Art of Frank H. Netter, M.D by Francine Mary Netter.

How one man combined his own personal passion for the visual arts with his mother's determination that he become a physician.  The book highlighted here shows some of his work, "a true amalgam of advertising art's splashy in-your-face realism and medicine's scientific precision.  

Sundance Film Festival Documentary Focuses On Dementia And Music

2014 Michael Rossato Bennett:  "Alive Inside:  A Story Of Music And Memory."  An interview with the director about his documentary film showing how music can aware something "Alive Inside" in dementia patients.  http://www.sundance.org/video/meet-the-artists-2014-Michael-Rossato-Bennett/

Theater Group Staging Play At Hospital To Save It

A Play Is Set In A Hospital, In Two Ways by Anemona Hartocollis.  The New York Times.  January 8, 2013.

The Edward Albee play, "The Death of Bessie Smith," is being staged in the Brooklyn Interfaith Medical Center, a facility that serves poor and black patients from Bedford-Stuyvesant.