Not sure what I feel (or think about) this: Faith and Healing - Can religion improve health? While the debate rages in journals and med schools, more Americans ask for doctors’ prayers. [from MSNBC]

While studies have noted the lack of efficacy of prayer on healing, for example, the real surprise is best summarized by one of the physicans involved:

One nugget, however, “blew my socks off,” Powell says. People who regularly attend church have a 25 percent reduction in mortality—that is, they live longer—than people who are not churchgoers. This is true even after controlling for variables intrinsically linked to Sundays in the pew, like social support and healthy lifestyle.

Very strange indeed....
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