Harvard Medical Prayer Study

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving inte…

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567

Heart Beat: What we don't know about prayer

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Heart_Beat_What_we_dont_know_about_prayerandhellip

An idea that has been floating around for some time is that intercessory prayer — praying that God will act for the good of another person — helps healing or speeds …

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/

1 Mind/Body Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. [email protected]; ...

The Harvard Prayer Experiment | David Myers

https://davidmyers.org/psychology-faith/prayer-experiments

The Harvard Prayer Experiment. The study: With support from the Templeton Foundation, cardiologist Herbert Benson and his colleagues randomly assigned 1802 …

Spiritual interventions: research on prayer and healing

https://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/spiritual-interventions

Like many areas of alternative medicine, this has not been fully investigated, reports the December 2006 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch. But two studies serve …

Relaxation response proves positive – Harvard Gazette

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/relaxation-response-proves-positive/

The relaxation response was first described more than 40 years ago by Harvard Medical School Professor Herbert Benson, …

Spirituality and Healing | Harvard Medical School

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/spirituality-healing

Harvard Catalyst symposium explores how spirituality and religion may both help and hinder health. Seventy-one percent of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit, and 80 percent of blacks and 61 …

Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/longawaited-medical-study-questions-the-power-of-prayer.html

The study cost $2.4 million, and most of the money came from the John Templeton Foundation, which supports research into spirituality. The government has …

Prayers don’t help heart surgery patients – Harvard Gazette

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/04/prayers-dont-help-heart-surgery-patients-2/

Dusek. “We thought that the certainty of knowing about the prayers of outsiders would reduce complications that accompany bypass surgery,” notes Jeffrey …

Largest Study of Prayer to Date Finds It Has No Power to Heal

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-31-sci-prayer31-story.html

Some scientists hoped the results of the $2.5-million study, conducted at six U.S. medical centers, would bring an end to the long controversy over therapeutic prayer.

Prayer Study Reveals Surprisingly Negative Findings

https://hwpi.harvard.edu/pluralismarchive/news/prayer-study-reveals-surprisingly-negative-findings

The largest scientific study into the health effects of prayer seems to suggest it may make matters worse. Two-thirds of Americans and more than a quarter of British …