Word: lithium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Portables can be quite sophisticated. One unit is not only AM/FM but is equipped with a liquid crystal diode (LCD) digital clock. A separate lithium battery with a service life of one year is used for the clock and three AA pen-light batteries for the radio. The clock is equipped with a beep wake-up alarm that will run for about four minutes after the selected alarm time has been reached and it will then turn off automatically. Unlike analog clocks, the digital in the radio has an AM and PM indicator. The clock has an hour switch, minute...
...severe aberrations in beat, and within 15 to 20 seconds administers a corrective shock (700 volts) that a conscious patient feels as a sharp tingle. If the heart does not resume normal beating, the defibrillator commands up to three more jolts. During the three-year life of its lithium batteries, it would be able to provide as many as 100 shocks...
...reports provided reassurance that many well-publicized side effects of prescription drugs are, in fact, mild. University of Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Karl Rickels told of a one-year study showing that Valium addiction is rare and comparatively easy to overcome. T. Alan Ramsey, also of Penn, challenged the view that lithium can damage kidneys, charging that such reports were based on uncontrolled studies that failed to allow for infection or other causes of disability...