Does praying for a sick person's recovery do any good? In the largest scientific test of its kind, heart surgery patients showed no benefit when strangers prayed for their recovery. And patients who ...

MARIN COUNTY, Calif., Jan. 8, 2006 — -- Natalia Kraft has a pretty good reason to believe in prayers: This past year, she survived breast cancer. Now, she is part of a study to see if, in fact, ...

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 ...

Praying for someone who is ill and preparing to undergo a risky medical procedure appears to have no effect on the patient’s future health. That’s the finding of one of the largest scientific ...

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.

BOSTON, Oct. 31, 2001 — -- A new study released today in the American Heart Journal says prayer helps the heart when combined with mainstream medical procedures. Duke researchers studied 150 ...

Distant prayers do not help people recovering from heart surgery and could even cause them more health problems, according to the results of a large and controversial clinical trial that critics have ...