Word: lithium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Notebook makers have managed to make their machines lighter and more energy-frugal, only to find their gains undone by the need to include the latest and greatest in their models. As soon as manufacturers perfected light and plastic cases and long-running lithium ion batteries, for instance, the coming of Pentium chips and bulky CD-ROM drives negated any winds for portability...
Clearly, much work remains to be done, particularly on cluster headaches. The pharmaceutical companies still don't have a pill designed specifically to protect against these attacks, although some doctors have had success treating them with lithium, a drug usually used to regulate the mood swings of manic depression. Apparently it can also interrupt the cycles of cluster headaches, although nobody yet understands why. Meanwhile, drilling holes in your head, no matter how much it hurts, is not recommended...
...fall of communism, the L.A. riots, even the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Republican revolution. But in the two years since Oklahoma City, the rough edges of the national psyche seem to have been sanded down a bit, as if we'd taken a collective dose of lithium. The economy is performing nicely, crime is down, we're finally bored of O.J. This isn't end time--it's quiet time...
Ultimately, scientists would like to figure out how genetic defects cause depression, and then to design drugs to correct whatever has gone awry. Gene mapping would be particularly helpful to people at risk for manic-depressive illness: although lithium and related drugs usually relieve the manic episodes, current antidepressants are often ineffective against the acute depressive ones. Says Ascher: "That's the real frontier...
Huggins got into trouble, according to state dental examiners, when, in pursuit of mercury, he went beyond the bounds of dentistry. In some cases he prescribed lithium tablets and ordered potentially dangerous injections of insulin "without clinical justification." One man, who had no amalgam fillings, was allegedly told that his lab reports showed he had "retention toxicity." Huggins denies any wrongdoing and claims that "dentistry is trying to embarrass me for getting this message...