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Praying for a sick cardiac patient may feel right to people of faith, but it doesn’t appear to improve the patient’s health, according to a new study that is the largest ever done on the healing ...

The largest medical study of the efficacy of intercessory prayer in healing has found that it has no effect on patients’ recovery from heart-bypass surgery, researchers announced on Thursday. Patients ...

Re the July 15 article, “Prayer has no power, study finds”: The title was in huge, bold print, so I assume that the South Florida Sun-Sentinel wanted to touch a nerve in the general public. I feel I ...

The researchers set out to quantify the effects of faith, calling upon the best logic of science. They designed a randomized, controlled trial, the gold standard of scientific study. They sought out ...

Complaining, yelling, thinking nasty thoughts - such reactions come easily when we're really ticked off. Often, though, they don't make us feel any better. What might, according to the results of a ...

At the Fairfax Community Church in Virginia, the faithful regularly pray for ailing strangers. Same goes at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington and the Islamic Center of Maryland in Gaithersburg.

The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of prayer by strangers has found that it provided no benefit to the recovery of patients who had undergone cardiac bypass surgery. In an unexpected twist ...

NEW YORK - In the largest scientific test of its kind, heart surgery patients showed no benefit when strangers prayed for their recovery. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a ...