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July, 2006

Burned in EfficacyChicago--Prayer failed to help heart patients, according to a new study of 1,800 people recovering from bypass surgery at six U.S. hospitals. Published in The American Heart Journal, the study assigned patients to three groups: Members of the first group knew people were praying for them, those in another were prayed for after being told they might be, and the third group was not prayed for after being told it might be. The group conscious of being prayed for initially fared th...