"These data suggest that intercessory prayer to the Judeo-Christian God has a beneficial therapeutic effect in patients admitted to a CCU, " he concluded.
The study looked at 17 previously published papers and found that "patients who received intercessory prayer demonstrated significant improvement" in seven of those.
Indeed, perhaps the most certain result stemming from this study is the following: The findings are unlikely to satisfy either proponents or opponents of intercessory prayer.