"That's at least one very theoretical model that might support notions of distant prayer or distant healing." Krucoff, a cardiologist, published a study last summer involving 748 heart patients at ...

The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of prayer by strangers has found that it provided no benefit to the recovery of patients who had undergone cardiac bypass surgery. In an unexpected ...

The researchers who tested the power of prayer emphasized that their $2.4 million study could not address whether God exists or answers prayers made on another's behalf. The study could look only ...

Intriguingly, mental health researchers have examined the impact of prayer on the lives of ordinary people, both with and without mental illness. The results from these studies converge on a set ...

Meditation and prayer can heal. Now, this statement is garnering support from survey studies: a research work published by the Journal of Religion and Health suggested that prayer leads to ...

Despite an earlier pilot study suggesting prayer could have a measurably beneficial effect, the experiment revealed that the recovery rates of the heart patients who were prayed for were no ...

"This set of studies is the very first to use objective indicators to show that prayer changed actual behavior, and that this behavior was apparent to the other partner, the subject of the prayer." ...

Now, she is part of a study to see if, in fact, prayers are answered. "I definitely believe, still believe, that prayer and intention matters a lot," she said. Kraft is one of 120 breast cancer ...

Something accessible to even the most devoted atheist: social connection. The authors ground their study of prayer’s power in something called the “strength model” of self-control.

Catholic and mainstream Protestant support for prayer in schools has sharply declined since the 1970s, while Evangelical support for the practice has remained steady according to a new study ...