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  Home | News     Adult stem cells help paralysed 18 year old to walk A paralysed 18 year old, Jacki Rabon, who was injured in a car accident in August 2003, is now able to walk with braces six months after being treated with her own nasal adult stem cells. The operation took place at Hospital Egaz Moniz in Lisbon in October 2005 and involved taking olfactory tissue from the upper nasal cavity and transplanting the cells into the patient. The Portuguese neurologist and adult stem cell pioneer, Dr Carlos Lima, who treated her and whose surgery...

Jacki Rabon, 18, is walking with braces on a parallel bar six months after undergoing adult stem cell surgery to repair a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed. Her story is a testament to the healing potential of adult stem cell research. Photo by Becki Rabon WAVERLY, Ill. (BP)--Jacki Rabon was riding with some friends in the back of an SUV in August 2003 when she was thrown out of the vehicle as it veered off the road. She skidded a few feet and landed near a ditch, and her life was suddenly changed. “Right away, I knew...

Just days before the European Commission unveils its evaluation of member states' reform plans on boosting the bloc's economy, the business community argues that they lack ambition and will result in limited growth and few extra jobs. The commission is to adopt on Wednesday (25 January) a report to present to member state leaders at the March summit, in which it will point out the strengths and weaknesses of the 25 national plans. The plans are part of the Lisbon agenda, the project aimed at boosting the competitiveness of the EU's economy. According to commission officials, these schemes, outlining concrete...

LISBON (AFP) - Portugal wrapped up campaigning ahead of a weekend presidential election which is expected to select a right-of-centre leader for the first time since democracy was restored in 1974. Economics professor Anibal Cavaco Silva, who oversaw a period of economic growth as a centre-right prime minister between 1985 and 1995, has between 52 and 53 percent support, four polls published Friday showed. The 66-year-old candidate, backed by the Social Democrats and the smaller Popular Party, needs to get more than 50 percent of the vote on Sunday to avoid a runoff election between the top two contenders on...

Here we go again, rocketing into another fun-filled, exciting defense of those calumniated 18th-century Lisbon priests. Exactly 250 years ago tomorrow, on All Saints’ Day, November 1, 1755, a tragic earthquake and tsunami struck Lisbon, Portugal, killing tens of thousands, and destroying much of the city.Back on the Trail of a Historical Fiction Catholic Exchange readers might remember that 9 months ago I wrote “Journalistic Un-integrity,” parts one and two, in response to a Washington Post article written by Jose Antonio Vargas, in which it was alleged that in the aftermath of the disaster, “priests roamed the streets, hanging those...

OP-ED COLUMNIST Felix Rohatyn knew that he and a handful of relatives had been lucky to get out of Nazi-occupied France in the early-1940's, when he was 12 years old. But there were details about the harrowing escape that have only recently come to light. Mr. Rohatyn, now 76, is the financier who helped save New York City from bankruptcy in the 1970's and later served as ambassador to France during the Clinton administration. His family was Jewish, and originally from Poland. In the fall of 1940 the dark night of the Holocaust was spreading across France with terrifying speed....