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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday june 30, 2004 Canada / world a9 new treatment could help Zap heart disease researchers target Organ inflammation scientists forced to think again about length of Day on Saturn that a about six minutes longer than ing instead for something deep inside radio signals show measurements performed by the Voy Saturn that would cause variability in Ager 1 and 2 spacecraft that flew by the radio rotation period Saturn in 1980 and 1981. Observations i Don to think any of us could con made in France in 1997 also differed chive of any process that would cause Pasadena Calif. ? scientists who from the voyager findings. The rotation of the entire planet to figured they knew How Long a Day last Cassini due to enter Saturn a orbit actually slow Down said Don Gurnett de on Saturn Are having second tonight gathered radio data from a Cassini scientist who works at the thoughts. April 29, 2003, to june 10, 2004. University of Iowa. The Cassini spacecraft has been Lis we All agree that the radio rotation Gurnett said there appears to be tuning to natural radio signals from period of Saturn is longer today than it some kind of slippage Between the Saturn the most reliable method of was during the voyager flyby in 1980,? deep Interior of the planet and the determining a Days length. Cassinis said Michael d. Desch a member of magnetic Field which controls the transmissions show a Complete Rota the Cassini team and a scientist at charged particles responsible for the Tion takes 10 hours 45 minutes and 45 Nasa a Goddard space flight Center. Radio seconds plus or minus 36 seconds but scientists doubt the planet is Nasa said in a statement monday. Rotating More slowly. They Are look associated press by Sheryl Ubelacker t Oronto ? Canadian researchers Hope to help patients with debilitating and often deadly chronic heart failure with an experimental treatment that involves removing a Small amount of blood stressing it with heat oxidation and a Zap of Ultra Violet Light then injecting it Back into the patient. Although a simple procedure involving just 10 Millilitres two Teaspoons of blood the therapy triggers a Complex immune response that earlier studies show halts the inflammation associated with chronic heart failure that progressively damages the body a major Organ. Inflammation plays a pretty important role in the development and progression of heart failure said or. Debra Isaac director of heart transplants at Foothills medical Centre in Calgary. And what the immune modulation ther apy does is it targets the destructive inflammatory changes by activating the patients own immune system and increasing anti inflammatory responses. So we re using the patients own immune system to counteract the bad effects of heart failure Isaac said in an interview from Calgary where commencement of the study was announced yesterday. Isaac is among a number of researchers in Canada and the United states who will be conducting the study on 2,000 patients with chronic or congestive heart failure. Participants will undergo the 20-minute blood removal return treatment three times in the first month then once a month for about two years. Isaac and fellow researchers at the University of Calgary a faculty of Medicine want to recruit 30 heart failure patients for their part of the study which also includes Sites in Montreal Victoria Halifax Sacramento Dallas and Boston. It is critical that we slow Down the inflammatory process that is toxic to the heart said or. Jean Rouleau of the University of Montreal principal investigator of the study for Canada. Our Hope is that this potential treatment can alleviate the serious Side effects of chronic heart failure and treat the Long term damage being caused by the chronic or congestive heart failure often occurs after heart attacks and can leave a patient with severe shortness of breath profound fatigue and heart rhythm problems or cause sudden car Diac death said Isaac. They can have shortness of breath to the Point where they Are literally drowning because of fluid build up in the lungs while drugs Are used to control symptoms Isaac said doctors Hope the experimental therapy will allow them to treat the underlying causes of heart failure in a More aggressive Way. My Hope with the anti inflammatory therapy is that we would be Able to reduce the progression of heart failure and improve Quality of life in patients she said. The body repairs itself in Many cases and if we interfere with the inflammatory response we May allow a certain degree of Healing and improve heart function. ? Canadian press Alotha changed dance . 4hink%lectronics4hinkdvance wow Advance my Ca ;