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Show ILY HERALD Prayer cal centers. It was financed by the Templeton Foundation, which supports research into science and religion, and one of the participating hospitals. It will appear in Tuesday's issue Continued from Al “did not move us forward or backward”in understanding the effects of prayer, said Dr. of the American Heart Journal The research team tested the effect of having three Christian Charles Bethea, a co-author and cardiologist at the Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. “Intercessory prayer groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two underourrestricted format had weeks. The volunteers prayed @ neutral effect.” Dr. Herbert Benson of Har- for “a successful surgery with a asked why he thought the study iomnd meet ot praper. Because is none,” he | Continued from Al said. “That would be one an- complications”for specific pa- tients — their identities known Koenig, of Duke University Medical Center, who didn't take part in the study, said the results didn't surprise him. a conclusion, except to say thatby this study design, with onlyby first name andfirst initial of the last name. The patients, meanwhile, weresplit into three groups of about 600apiece: those who groundsYo expect a result and there are no real theological grounds to expect a result either,” he said. “There is no god found.” The researchers also said knew they werebeing prayed for, those who were prayed who knew they were being prayed for had a higherrate of for but only knewit was a pos- complications than patients who prayed for but were told it was a possibility. The researchers didn’t ask. patients or their families and God would be expected to be had for prayer, saying such a hadto call in the prayer team?” and impractical, andfriends shouldn't be dis- complications within 30 days of the surgery. Results showed no effect of prayer on com- step would have been unethical The researcherssaid family The study looked for any couraged fromtelling a patient about their plans to prayfor a good recovery plication-free recovery. But amongpatients who did receive prayers, 59 percentof the pa- Experts calledit the largest and best-designedstudy ever tients who knewthey were totest the medicaleffects of intercessoryprayers — pray- being prayed for developed a complication, versus 52 percent ingonbehalf of someoneelse That's different from studying the effect of a person's prayers andspiritual practices on his or her ownhealth; many studies , of that have shown a positive effect. The new study followed about 1,800patients at six medi- 500,000 illegal immigrants out | of the state's population of Within the Christian tradition, nal salvation, he said, and “why they'rein‘a research study?” Dr. David Stevens, executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, said he believes intercessory prayercan influence medical outcomes,but that scienceis prayer? Theologians would say absolutely not. God decides just a possibility. Paul Kurtz, professor emeritus of philosophy at the State Asfor the new study, he said,“I don’tthink ... it’s going to stop people praying for the Long considered a federal problem,limited to a few “gateway states” such as California and Arizona,illegal immigraacross the country. 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