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This is such a sweet story:

Even the Beatles would have had trouble recognizing their peppy song in the lullaby that Andrea Zalkin sang to the tiny, fragile baby clutched to her chest in the neonatal unit. But there was something unintentionally poignant in the title she chose for her son: "Eight Days a Week" is more time than can fit on the calendar. Ms. Zalkin's baby, Hudson, born 13 weeks early, has had too little time.

As she sang, monitors showed Hudson's heartbeat slowing and his oxygen saturation increasing. Effects like that were among the findings of a new study on the use of music as medicine.

The accompanying video is poignant, too.

And here's the study from the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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