THE POWER OF MUSIC TO RELIEVE PAIN — AND MORE HEALTH HEADLINES
For Thursday, Sept. 3, WGN’s Dina Bair has the latest on new medical information, including:
Music-based interventions can help ease pain
Sing along, tap to the beat, choose songs you like, and pain relief will follow.
Drexel University researchers map the evidence that music-based interventions do reduce pain from cancer and osteoarthritis.
Music triggers biological, physiological, and social mechanisms that affect pain signals.
While trained music therapists help, if they choose the music, it doesn't provide as powerful relief.
Familiar songs, singing along, and synchronizing movement with music through dancing or drumming all provide a sense of control and maximize music's potency for pain control.
Changing meal time known as 'jetlag' can impact heart health
Meal jetlag can hurt the heart.
Eating regular meals due to weekday work and school schedules, then upending mealtime on weekends disrupts the body's biological rhythm.
The shift is referred to as eating jetlag.
According to an analysis of more than 100,000 adults over 15 years by the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, meal-schedule disruption increases the risk of cardiovascular complications.
Each additional hour of eating jet lag is associated with up to a 21% higher risk of heart disease.
Hair loss linked to GLP use in some men
GLP-1 medications help people shed weight, but they may also trigger some men to shed their hair, especially if they have a genetic predisposition to pattern baldness.
Researchers from New York University found that men have a 7% added risk of hair loss if they use drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound for Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Doctors have less information on women's hair loss since it is not as well studied.
But they say the GLP-1 impact on hair loss may extend to women as well.
Both men and women have reported thinning hair as a weight-loss drug side effect.
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2026-09-03T22:41:40Z
