Pray now to get better yesterday
QUITE why David Kemmish was looking for studies on the medical effects of prayer we do not know, but we are as delighted as he was to be reminded of the nine-year-old paper “Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial” by Leonard Leibovici, then at the Rabin Medical Center at Petah-Tiqva, Israel.
It seems surprising that this paper, published in the prestigious British Medical Journal in December 2001 (), didn’t create more of a stir at the time. It appears to show that prayer is associated with…
