| Heart patients perform 50 to 100% better under group prayer |
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The first major study that looked at prayer and its healing effects was published in 1988 in the Southern Medical Journal. Dr. Randy Bird, a cardiologist at the University of California, followed the progress of 393 patients with chest pain and heart trouble. He divided them into two groups. One was prayed for. One was not. Three people in the prayed-for group required treatment with antibiotics, compared to 17 patients in the group not targeted with prayers. Those who were prayed for also used respirators less and suffered fewer instances of congestive heart failure.
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Decrease in crime
In 1993 a 48% decrease in crime in D.C. Was attributed to an experiment of 4000 people meditating at the same time. Certainly many of these people were using this time to for prayer, but you can imagine what the results could have been if all 4000 of them had been praying?
Life expetancies of AIDS patients
In July 1995, back when AIDS was still a death sentence, psychiatrist Elisabeth Targ and her co-researchers enrolled 20 patients with advanced AIDS in a randomized, double-blind pilot study at the UC San Francisco Medical Center.
