"Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectatiosn the prayers created, the researchers suggested."
Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
by Benedict Carey
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html
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