A recent study by Professor Leonard Leibovici, of the Rabin
Medical Center in Israel, provides evidence that prayer can
heal.
The objective of the study was, according to Leibovici, ?To
determine whether remote, retroactive intercessory prayer,
said for a group of patients with a bloodstream infection,
has an effect on outcomes.?
He studied almost 4,000 patients who were hospitalized with
blood infections between 1990 and 1996, dividing them into a
control group and an intervention group. Prayers were said
for the ?well being and full recovery of the intervention
group? by people who did not personally know the person they
were praying for.
The rate of death was approximately 28% for the group of
people who were prayed for and a little over 30% for the
control group. This is only a 2% difference, but it would
make a big difference if one of that 2% was you. Also, ?the
length of stay in the hospital and the duration of the fever
were significantly shorter in the intervention group than in
the control group,? says Leibovici. Prayer helped ?even when
the intervention [was] performed 4-10 years after the
infection.?
Leibovici?s conclusion is that ?remote, retroactive
intercessory prayer said for a group is associated with a
shorter stay in hospital and shorter duration of fever in
patients with a bloodstream infection and should be
considered for use in clinical practice.?
Also, two other, similar prayer studies showed improvement
in a group of heart patients in an intensive coronary care
unit. A recent review of test data found that 57% of the
trials of prayer on healing showed positive results.
Leibovici says, ?No mechanism known today can account for
the effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer said
for a group of patients with a bloodstream infection.? In
other words, it had to be prayer that made the difference.
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