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- A Randomized Double-Blind Study of the Effect of Distant Healing in a Population With Advanced AIDS - Sicher, Targ, Moore, and Smith (1998). Research article originally published in the Western Journal of Medicine.
www.etarg.org/WJM-98.12/index.html
- A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Effects of Remote, Intercessory Prayer on Outcomes in Patients Admitted to the Coronary Care Unit - Harris, Gowda, Kolb, et al. (1999). Article from Archives of Internal Medicine 159(19).
archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v159n19/rfull/ioi90043.html
- ABCNEWS.com: Can Prayer Heal? - Brief article reviewing extant research on remote healing.
abcnews.go.com/sections/Downtown/2020/Downtown_010813_remotehealing_feature.html
- BBC News: Does Prayer Work? - Review of evidence for answered prayer for world peace and health.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1844000/1844076.stm
- Columbia News: Prayer May Influence In Vitro Fertilization Success - Review of Lobo et al's (2001) double blind study into the effects of intercessory prayer on IVF success.
www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/09/in_vitro_prayer.html
- Discovery Channel Canada: The Power of Prayer? - Four video stories hosted by Jay Ingram investigating remote prayer. Includes interview with Duke University's Dr. Mitchell Krucoff.
exn.ca/Stories/2001/11/20/52.asp
- Distant Intercessory Prayer - Research article by Lynn Munson and Douglas Degelman. [PDF]
www.vanguard.edu/psychology/prayer.pdf
- Does Prayer Influence the Success of in Vitro FertilizationEmbryo Transfer? - Report of a masked, randomized trial, by Cha, Wirth, and Lobo, (2001). Published in Journal of Reproductive Medicine 46:9.
www.reproductivemedicine.com/Features/2001/2001Sep.htm
- Effects of Intercessory Prayer on Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis - Matthews, Marlowe, and MacNutt (2000). Article from Southern Medical Journal 93(12):1177-1186. [PDF]
www.sma.org/smj2000/decsmj00/matthews.pdf
- Empirical Explorations of Prayer, Distant Healing, and Remote Mental Influence - Article by William Braud, originally appearing in Journal of Religion and Psychical Research, 17(2):62-73 (1994).
www.integral-inquiry.com/docs/649/empirical.pdf
- Experiments on Distant Intercessory Prayer - Chibnall, Jeral, and Cerullo (2001). Commentary from Archives of Internal Medicine 161(21) cautioning against attempting to validate God through scientific methods.
archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v161n21/rfull/icm00048.html
- Free Inquiry: Can Science Prove that Prayer Works? - Skeptical article by anthropologist and biblical scholar Hector Avalos, in Council for Secular Humanism quarterly magazine.
www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/avalos_17_3.html
- Is Prayer Clinically Effective? - Article by Professor David G. Myers on the psychology of prayer, originally presented in Reformed Review (2000) 53(2):95-102.
www.davidmyers.org/religion/prayer.html
- John Templeton Foundation Prayer Study Archive - Collection of scientific research articles and media articles exploring the power of intercessory prayer on health.
www.templeton.org/studyarchive/prayer.asp
- Prayer - Collection of skeptical articles on the power of prayer in medical healing by Gary Posner.
members.aol.com/garypos/prayer.html
- Prayer and Medical Science - Article by Larry Dossey, originally presented in Archives of Internal Medicine (2000) 160:1735-1738.
www.mercola.com/article/prayer/dossey.htm
- Prayer, Faith, and Health - David G. Myers' commentary on the background of the Harvard Prayer Experiment. Originally presented in Reformed Review (2000) 53(2):119-126.
www.davidmyers.org/religion/faith.html
- Psychology of Prayer - Notes and bibliographic references for D. Andrew Kille's lecture on prayer, a part of the Pastoral Ministries Program at Santa Clara University.
home.att.net/~revdak/spir243/lecture06.htm
- Scientific Research on Prayer - Debra Williams' review of research attempting to prove the power of prayer.
www.plim.org/PrayerDeb.htm
- The Prayer Experiment - Essay by Russell Stannard from Second Opinion magazine, reviewing philosophical and methodological considerations for experimentation into prayer.
www.parkridgecenter.org/cgi-bin/ShowPage.dll?ID=177&Relation=2537
- TIME: Investigating the Power of Prayer - A San Francisco researcher looks into whether prayer can heal even if the person doesn't know he's being prayed for.
www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,193084,00.html
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