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Doctors have prescribed lithium salts for over 100 years. In the 19th century, people drank lithium water for mental health.

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.

In 1929, a soft drink containing lithium was introduced to the American market.

Its slogan was, Takes the Ouch out of the Grouch.

The product eventually became 7-Up, although it has not contained lithium since 1950.

Lithium has been used for bipolar disorder for decades.

It has a bad reputation for toxicity because the doses used in psychiatry can damage the kidneys.

Now some physicians are considering low-dose lithium

for a range of psychiatric conditions.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,

what you should know about lithium.

First, this news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, lung cancer accounts for more cancer deaths than any other type, with 150,000 fatalities every year.

Until recently, treatments were unimpressive and the prognosis for patients was dismal, as one eminent oncologist put it.

This week, however, scientists have presented the results of a new approach to treatment that looks more promising.

Three separate studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that adding

immunotherapy to surgery or chemotherapy can significantly prolong survival.

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