Waltham, Mass.—Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands 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 ...

Studying the efficacy of prayer is a sensitive topic: Depending on where you come from, you can either consider it offensive even to try to apply a scientific method to a spiritual process, or you can ...

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 ...

Prayer may be the most universally applied form of treatment for sickness, injury and disease. It’s used around the world, across cultures and for at least as long as reports of human suffering reach ...

DURHAM, N.C. - - Cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone, ...

Has anyone asked you to pray for them, especially for some specific intention? Maybe the person is seeking for healing from a health problem, or is searching for a suitable job or even a mate for ...

This weekend, tens of thousands of Jews, and many non-Jews, will pray in Queens, at the tomb of the Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson), to remember the Jewish spiritual leader of ...

Answer: The findings are mixed, but I'm intrigued by the small but growing body of evidence that suggests prayer may indeed play a role in healing. Some studies have linked spiritual and religious ...

No vaccine or effective treatment has yet been found for people suffering from COVID-19. Under the circumstances, a physician in Kansas City wonders whether prayer might make a difference, and he has ...