WASHINGTON – Praying for sick strangers doesn’t improve their prospects of recovering, according to a large, carefully designed study that casts doubt on the widely held belief that praying for ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — On an operating table at a medical center in San Francisco, a breast cancer patient is undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. But this will be no ordinary surgery. Three ...

At the Fairfax Community Church in Virginia, the faithful regularly pray for ailing strangers. Same goes at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington and the Islamic Center of Maryland in Gaithersburg.

Doctors and scientists can measure the power of medicines and new treatments with scientific trials and tests, but how can they measure the power of prayer?

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, ...