Saturday, July 16, 2005

Study: Prayer Doesn't Help Heart Surgery Patients

Amid the debate over the value of prayer and so-called "noetic interventions" to help people heal, a new study finds that prayer and bedside therapy of music, imagery and touch don't improve the outcomes of patients undergoing heart procedures.
However, patients receiving music, imagery and touch (MIT) therapy did have a slightly lower mortality rate at six months.
The findings appear in the July 16 edition of The Lancet.

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