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Prayers Don’t Help Heart Surgery Patients; Some Fare Worse When Prayed For
Harvard Medical School
February 15, 2012
Print: Science Daily
Results from the largest study on intercessory prayer performed at Harvard in 2006 show that prayer bestows no benefit on patients, and patients who knew that others were praying for them fared worse.
