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 ...

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 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 ...

United States: Scientists hoped a $2.5m study would end controversy over the power of therapeutic prayer, write Denise Gellene and Thomas H Maugh. The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of ...

A LOT of studies on intercessory prayer have been published in recent years. This research has returned mixed results. Some studies conclude that prayer improves health, while others show no effect—or ...

Researchers say the purpose of the study was to evaluate the influence prayer has on science. Praying for someone who is ill and preparing to undergo a risky medical procedure appears to have no ...

A LOT of studies on intercessory prayer have been published in recent years. This research has returned mixed results. Some studies conclude that prayer improves health, while others show no effect—or ...

Thinking of sending your “thoughts and prayers” to those affected by tragedy or a natural disaster? Well, not everyone wants them. While Christians value these gestures from religious people, some ...

On an operating table at a medical center in San Francisco, a breast-cancer patient is undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. But this will be no ordinary surgery. Three thousand miles ...

With most health experts saying a coronavirus vaccine is likely more than a year away, a cardiologist at the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute has begun a scientific study to see if something called ...