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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK | 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 ...

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.

HOUSTON -- For centuries, science has been trying to prove or disprove the power of prayer. Now a new study of MRI brain scans shows that there is power in prayer, or meditation. Not just spiritual ...

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, ...

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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. With regard to delaying the prayer ...

When Americans experience health problems, they don’t just rely on doctors and medications. A new study found that most Americans have turned to prayer to heal themselves and others. The study found ...