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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.