Baptist Press Archive

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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  • Diabetic patients seemingly cured with adult stem cells
    by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (17 years ago)

    RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil (BP)--In a study that some say should impact the debate over embryonic stem cells, 13 diabetic patients no longer are using insulin after undergoing a procedure where they were infused with their own adult stem cells.

          The trial in Brazil involved 15 type 1 diabetes patients of both sexes ranging in age from 14-31, all of whom had been diagnosed with diabetes within the previous six weeks. All but two of them are insulin-free after undergoing a treatment where they intravenously received stem cells from their own blood. In fact, the treatment even worked in one of the latter two patients for a year before a relapse.

          Some are throwing around the word "cure," although most doctors are avoiding that term for now. Studies with larger groups need to be done. Read More

  • Seminary responds to former prof's lawsuit
    by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (17 years ago)

    To read the entire Motion to Dismiss, click here.
     
    FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by a professor who has alleged that her dismissal from a tenure-track position last year was because she is a woman. Read More

  • Report precedes Mo. exec’s dismissal
    by Norm Miller, posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (17 years ago)

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--Upon the recommendation of an ad hoc investigative committee, the Missouri Baptist Convention’s executive board voted April 10 to terminate MBC Executive Director David Clippard. Read More

  • Court rejects ACLU over fed Scout policy
    by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (17 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP)--A federal appeals court has rejected an ACLU-backed lawsuit claiming the government's support of an event sponsored every four years by the Boy Scouts of America violates the separation of church and state. Read More

  • CULTURE DIGEST: Airplane passengers practice 'prayer flying' over Ohio
    by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (17 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Some pilots took the mandate to pray for the salvation of their neighbors seriously on Good Friday when 10 single-engine airplanes flew over Ohio, carrying people praying for the 11 million residents of the state's 88 counties. Read More

  • A pint of stewardship
    by Tamara Quintana, posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (17 years ago)

    DALLAS (BP)--It's Sunday morning at your church and the subject of the preacher's sermon is stewardship. Merriam-Webster defines it as "the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care." Everything we have belongs to God. The preacher has mentioned stewardship of our time, our finances and our family, but he might have missed stewardship of our bodies. Read More