Prayer doesn’t help heart patients in U.S.
`Having people pray for heart bypass patients had no effect on their recoveries in an American study, researchers say.
The scientists, led by Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School, emphasized that they looked only at the effect of prayer on the patients in their study – and could not address questions such as whether God exists or answers prayers.
The research, which is to be published in the April 2006 issue of the American Heart Journal, involved about 1,800 patients at six medical centres.’
