When a landmark study suggests that intercessory prayer may actually hurt patients instead of help them, you have to wonder. Should your doctor prescribe prayer as part of your treatment? According to ...

In at least 3 paragraphs in the article, [1] Professor Gaudia asserts that God "does not exist in the material world" and "cannot be part of the physical universe." Those statements should be ...

Waltham, Mass.—Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of ...

No, says Dr. Charles Bethea, principal investigator of a study completed earlier this year on bypass-surgery patients at the Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. “Those receiving ...

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 ...

A study published in the September issue of the Southern Medical Journal, titled “Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Proximal Intercessory Prayer on Auditory and Visual Impairments in Mozambique” ...

Faith seems to make you healthier. People who regularly attend religious services recover faster from a variety of mental and physical diseases, and generally live longer, than those who do not ...

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

Faith seems to make you healthier. People who regularly attend religious services recover faster from a variety of mental and physical diseases, and generally live longer, than those who do not ...