Brief | "6 Minutes Together" is an original music playlist designed together with a PAH specialist, aiming to transform the 6 minutes of despair into 6 minutes of positivity. By collaborating with Spotify, forty artists in Japan and around the world including OASIS, QUEEN, and Diana Ross, have offered their 6-minute songs. Every song has the exact Beats Per Minute to match patients’ walking speed. The playlist also includes a 6-minute original audio recording of medical tips for PAH patients by a PAH specialist, Professor Tamura. The playlist also gained endorsement by one of Japan’s most well-known artists, Yo Hitoto, who wrote a new song, "6 Minutes" for PAH patients specially in the playlist.The potential of music as prescription for patients’ emotions. |
hikaye | PAH (Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension) is a fatal rare disease that makes it difficult for oxygen to be properly distributed through the body, causing patients to feel short of breath even when walking. Whilst PAH can't be cured, it can be treated. To optimize treatment, the patient's condition is monitored regularly through the '6-minute walk test'. This 6 minute is a suffocating, desperate and lonely process that reminds patients of their fatal destiny, and some patients are reluctant or even refuse to take the test. Janssen Pharma which provides its treatment drug ‘Opsumit’ for PAH decided to stand up to the situation to provide a solution beyond medicine. |