Prayer Medical Studies

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

At least one earlier study found lower complication rates in patients who received intercessory prayers; others found no difference. A 1997 study at the University …

Efficacy of prayer - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer

Prayer and Health Outcomes

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/does-prayer-help-or-harm-your-health

Can Prayer Heal? - WebMD

https://www.webmd.com/balance/features/can-prayer-heal

For the past 30 years, Harvard scientist Herbert Benson, MD, has conducted his own studies on prayer. He focuses specifically on meditation, the Buddhist form of prayer, to …

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer …

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

Methods: Patients at 6 US hospitals were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: 604 received intercessory prayer after being informed that they may or may not receive prayer; 597 …

The psychological benefits of prayer | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/health/benefits-of-prayer-wellness/index.html

Studies could measure physiological factors as well, to determine whether prayer facilitates a physiological process predictive of health outcomes. Ecological …

Prayer as medicine: how much have we learned?

https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2007/186/10/prayer-medicine-how-much-have-we-learned

Several prayer studies using this approach have produced inconsistent results.18 The first of such studies was conducted by Byrd, a cardiologist, on intercessory …

Does Praying Work? Here's a Scientific …

https://subtle.energy/a-scientific-study-of-prayer/

People of faith will readily mention how prayer works for any situation, especially when it comes to healing. Now, studies about the science behind prayer are beginning to …

Prayer and healing: A medical and scientific perspective …

https://journals.lww.com/indianjpsychiatry/Fulltext/2009/51040/Prayer_and_healing__A_medical_and_scientific.4.aspx

Prayer is a special form of meditation and may therefore convey all the health benefits that have been associated with meditation Different types of meditation have been shown to …

Testing Prayer: Can Science Prove the Healing Power of Prayer?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/testing-prayer-science-of-healing_b_1299915

If prayer affects health -- for better or for worse -- then patients, doctors and policymakers should all want to know. Scientific research has returned mixed results. …