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s/ SECTION 2 - PAGE 1 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1984 National news Radio waves may aid paralysis victims By Lidla Wasowicz UPI Science Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Studies show the use of radio waves helps cats with crushed spinal cords walk again, offering hope to the thousands of accident victims who are paralyzed each year, a noted British researcher reported Tues­ day. "Our studies indicate pulsed high-frequency* electromagnetic energy offers a most promising avenue to a cure of paralysis," surgeon David Hedley Wilson said In an interview. "We plan to begin human tests soon," said Wilson, president of the Association of Accident and Emergency physicians of England and head of the Accident and Emergency Department of the General Infirmary at Leeds University Hospital. Some 3.5 million Americans are paralyzed by central nervous system injury, with 20,000 to 30,000 new injuries occurring each year. The average victim is a 19-year- old male, with two-thirds of pa­ tients under 30. "Now there's hope these vic­ tims, so many stricken while young and vibrant, may not need to spend the rest of their lives in wheelchairs," said Bern Siler, vice president of Diapulse Corp. of America, Great Neck, N.Y. The company manufactures the Diapulse unit -- used in Great Bri­ tain and Canada but approved on­ ly for research in the United States -- which generates radio waves at 27.12 megahertz, just above the frequency of television, emitting an electromagnetic field. "The radio frequencies are harmless, painless and can travel through dressings or plastic casts to speed recovery and repair damaged nerves," Wilson reported at the International Sym­ posium of the American Paralysis Association. ' In treating thousands of patients with soft-tissue injuries during the past decade, Wilson found the device quickened by as much as four times the healing process in sprains, post-operative wounds, burns, bone fractures, swollen joints. "The latest results from our research have exciting implica­ tions for nerve regeneration and spinal cord repair," he said. In animal experiments Diapulse treatment started within four hours after spinal cord injury resulted in a return to total func­ tion in 30 percent of the cases, he said. "We see it now as having enor­ mous potential in the treatment of acute spinal injuries, with indica­ tions that it promotes regenera­ tion of nerves in injuries once thought to result in lifelong paralysis." In a cat study, he found Diapulse minimized scar tissue, which forms a barrier to messages passing through the in­ jury site. Of 40 cats paralyzed because of spinal cord damage, 38 were able to walk again. "The wall of each cell in the body has an electric charge. When the cell is injured, it loses some of the charge, takes in water and sodium and swells. If it loses all its charge, it allows too much water inside and bursts," Wilson ex­ plained. "We found a sick cell with some of the charge missing can recover if the original charge is restored. That's what Diapulse does." Since accident victims who sus­ tain spinal cord damage usually also suffer life-threatening in­ juries that need to be treated first, "we are now studying whether a delay between the spinal cord in­ jury and treatment makes a dif­ ference in the result." Space shuttle crew hopes to carry on the tradition State news DCFS hires staff; pending budget approval By United Press International MARION -- The Department of Children and Family Services, facing soaring rates of child neglect and abuse and child sex­ ual abuse, hopes to add 260 new staff members, including 17 in Southern Illinois, it was announc­ ed this week. The department's director, Gor­ don Johnson, said that hiring the additional workers hinges on General Assembly approval of the department's fiscal 1985 budget. The additional staff should start in November under the $2.9 million budget request for the additional Restaurant group calls for end to happy hour drinking By United Press International CHICAGO - The National Restaurant Association has em­ barked on a nationwide campaign to discourage after-work "happy hour" promotions, such as "two- for-one" drink offers. The new guidelines announced Monday by NRA President Joe Lee were adopted this week by the restauranteurs groups as part of its campaign against drunk djriv* ing. that we can and should help," Lee told a news conference at McCor- mick Place. The new guidelines also in­ clude: •Public radio and television an­ nouncements about the dangers of drunk driving. •A course to help restaurant managers and bartenders become more sensitive to problem drinkers. •Encouraging bars to serve "Restaurapts and taverns . jflore i>or» d'oeuuvres to slow distent*y on^quarter alcoholic beverages consumed in --A campaign to discourage the United States, but we believe drink giveaways. workers. Johnson said the DCFS receives 70,000 child abuse calls a year in Illinois. The new workers would reduce the average DCFS caseload in the Marion region to 40-1 from its cur­ rent level of 53-1. In the Peoria area, he said, the level would be cut from 66-1 to 40-1. Some private organizations have only 25 cases per worker, Johnson said. The caseworkers also handle child welfare and adoption cases, Johnson said. "Child sexual abuse cases have been growing by leaps and bounds," Johnson said. "Media attention has helped people who have been victimized." He said the extra workers would lead to the improvement of ser­ vice and "speed up the in­ vestigative process and follow-up service." "Child welfare staff are the backbone of the social services system," Johnson said. "They homemaker services, and act as advocates for abused and neglected children and troubled families. * "In the past five years, this agency has streamlined its child abuse response system, boosted adoptions, and strengthened com­ munity services for youth. But a side effect has been an increase in the agency's caseload. DCFS statistics show that child abuse and neglect cases in Southern Illinois have increased from 24..9 per thousand children in fiscal 1981 to 27.4 per thousand in fiscal 1983. By Olive Talley By United Press International SPACE CENTER, Houston - The commander of the new space shuttle Discovery said Tuesday he hopes to continue the tradition of exploration set by the orbiter's namesakes when it roars aloft next month for its maiden flight. Henry Hartsfield, pilot Michael Coats and crew n<embers Mike Mullane, Judy Resnik, Steven Hawley and Charles Walker, the first non-government shuttle passenger, are scheduled to blast off in late June. The exact launch date will not be set until the shuttle's three main engines are fired up for a 20- second test run June 2. The spaceplane is scheduled to land at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at the end of the seven-day mis­ sion. "The name Discovery is rich in our history for world explora­ tion," Hartsfield said at a crew news conference, mentioning five ships dating back to Henry Hud­ son's in the 1600s that bore the name. "In the late 1800s and early 1900s the British built at least three ships bearing the name Discovery that were used in the exploration of the Antarctic," Hartsfield said. "We hope with the ship Discovery, of course, to con­ tinue that rich tradition with NASA." Walker, an engineer with McDomiell Douglas Astronautics Co., joined the crew to operate a high-tech machine his company and Ortho Pharmaceuticals Corp. hope will produce enough of a secret life-saving hormone to begin clinical tests. "The goal of the program is to provide a new commercial in­ dustry that utilizes the resource of space, in this particular case, the weightless environment of space to produce products, real materials that cannot be produced on parth for the benefit really of each one of us," he said. On the second day of the flight, the astronauts will launch Leasat- , 1, a Hughes Aircraft Co. Syncom communications satellite leased by the Navy and the first designed especially for shuttle deployment. Loaded on its side, Syncom will be flipped out of Discovery's cargo bay much like a Frisbee by springs on one side of the satellite's cradle. "Syncom is unique because it is the first spacecraft designed specifically for the shuttle," said Mullane who, working with Hawley, will launch the satellite. "The Syncom can only be carried by the space shuttle." Forty-five minutes after, it is deployed, Syncom's solid rocket motor will ignite to begin the relay station's trip to a geosynchronous, or stationary, position relative to Earth, 22,300 miles above the equator. The astronauts also will test a 105-foot experimental solar cell array they will extend straight up from the payload bay. The fragile structure, which could be used on NASA's planned space station or to provide power for extended shuttle missions, packs into a box just 7 inches deep for the trip home. liipS! SOME OF THE MOST USEFUL TOOLS YOU'LL EVER OWN. This is a Dremel* Moto-Tool,* a com­ pact high-speed power tool thafs so versatile, it's like dozens of tools in one. With its wide range of accessory bits, it will grind, sand, polish, carve and more. 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