A Test of the Healing Power Of Prayer. (cover story)Describes a study at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, about the relationship between medicine and prayer. Research by Krucoff and Crater for the pilot study called Mantra; Sources for prayer used; Preliminary results.Van...
The article presents results of a clinical trial on the therapeutic effects of prayer. Herbert Benson and Jeffery Dusek of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and their colleagues followed the fates of 1802 patients undergoing coron...
“I’m in MN and like I’ve said since this whole fog thing, that fog was here in December. I’m a 2 puff smoker and I go outside to take my smoke. No one else in my home was going out for anything. I got so sick. I thought it was the flu. Then the symptoms lasted for...
When the three weeks passed, the doctor was notified that there would be a slight delay in getting the results back to him as the lab did an additional test that would take a day or two. So, my appointment was set for the following week. Meanwhile, my cough had gotten worse. I held...
Patients were unaware that they were being prayed for, and the intercessors did not know and never met the patients. Main Outcome Measures The medical course from CCU admission to hospital discharge was summarized in a CCU course score derived from blinded, retrospective chart review. Results ...
"When you do a study, what you're looking for is the truth," Karas said. "So what I hope is that [what] the study does is show us what the truth is." However, Dr. Richard Sloan of the Columbia University Medical Center, who studies how non-physical ailments like depression contribu...
In first group prayer therapy was done for three weeks by mothers. In control group prayer therapy was not done. Data was collected by state anxiety spilberger test and mean anxiety was compared between two groups by analytical statistical test.Results The results showed that difference between ...
Results of Contemporary Radical Cystectomy for Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Clinicopathological Study With an Emphasis on the Inadequacy of the Tumor, Nodes ... We reviewed 261 patients who underwent a radical operation at a single institution as definitive treatment of invasive bladder cancer to evaluat...
The complementary and alternative medicine literature is also equivocal as to whether prayer, arguably the most common complementary medical therapy, should be included in the range of interventions grouped under that heading. In addition to reporting the background and results of the study, the book...
If such a study had negative results, people who are religious would likely just say things like “God hides”, so that an organized test for the paranormal efficacy of prayer wouldn’t ever give rigorous proof. How would you test for the existence of a superintelligent, omnipotent, ...