Study highlights difficulty of isolating effect of prayer on patients.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS) From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: April 3, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Christian Science Publishing Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

The results of a long-awaited scientific study aimed at measuring the effect of third-party prayer for hospitalized patients not only did not match the expectations of those conducting the study, but also may have raised more questions for researchers than it answered. Among them: Can even the most carefully designed trial measure prayer's effects?

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