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| | Prayer, noetic studies feasible; results indicate benefit to heart patients |
 | | Noetic interventions are defined as "a healing influence performed without the use of a drug, device or surgical procedure," said the researchers. |
 | | Patients who received noetic therapies showed a 25 to 30 percent reduction in adverse outcomes (such as death, heart failure, post-procedural ischemia, repeat angioplasty or heart attack) than those without such therapies, according to the researchers. |
 | | "These noetic interventions help a patient achieve a state of calm equilibrium, or homeostasis, which puts them in a better state to help in their own recovery process," said Jon Seskevich, a Duke nurse clinician, who along with Crater, designed the non-prayer interventional therapies. |
| www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-10/dumc-pns102901.php (923 words) |
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