Technology Offers 'Cure' For Heart Patients POSTED: 12:29 pm EDT August 17, 2005 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Doctors usually don't like using the word cure, but with a new 3-D technology they are hard pressed to describe it any other way for one the most common heart disorders in the world. Sports legend Arnie Ferrin may not be playing ball with the Lakers anymore. But at 80 years old, he's pretty fit, moving around, and free now of arrhythmia's -- an irregular heartbeat that has plagued him for the past 10 years. Ferrin is one among a group who recently participated in a study testing some new technology to stop the short circuits in his heart. The cure rate is impressive. "92 percent is good, isn't it?" Ferrin said. "Particularly for old people." What makes this work well enough to cure patients? 3-D technology. A catheter is snaked from a

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