Because Anthrax is easily treated if caught early, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to use volunteer, government mail carriers to deliver emergency antibiotics to areas affected by anthrax attack. According to the plan, mail carriers will have advance supplies of antibiotics to protect themselves and their families; and they\'ll be escorted by local police as they deliver several days\' worth of antibiotics and an anthrax fact sheet to residences. After the initial delivery public health authorities will set up re-supply centers. Considering anthrax-laced letters killed 5 people - including 2 postal workers - in 2001, the government didn\'t think very far outside the envelope for this plan.
The plan at the Wuhan Zoo in central China is to feed its 2 panda bears home-cooked, chicken soup to reduce their stress. According to zoo officials, the pandas were tired and suffering from shock due to the week-long National Day holiday, which brought 30,000 visitors a day to the zoo. The pandas were fed 2.2 pounds of soup in addition to their regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns. Reflecting Chinese tradition of drinking chicken soup for health, it\'s hoped the soup will also help the panda bears handle cold weather. Obviously, our mothers telling us to drink chicken soup when we have colds is advice to bear in mind.
Something else to bear in mind is that U.S. mammograms are read by only 1 radiologist. Ten years ago computer-aided detection was developed to improve cancer detection and it\'s now used for about 1/3 of the nation\'s mammograms. In Britain mammograms are read by 2 radiologists or technicians. However, British research has shown that a radiologist aided by a computer did as well detecting cancers as 2 human readers. This means American women won\'t have to pay with their health for insurance companies that won\'t pay for 2 human readers.
Finally, according to the American Psychiatric Association, 19 million Americans have phobias. They\'re the #1 psychiatric illness in women and the #2 in men over 25. Avoidance of the feared situations can\'t cure phobias, but Cognitive Behavior Therapy can. CBT is based on the belief that thoughts - not external things - cause our feelings and behaviors. Therefore, if we change how we think, we don\'t have to change the situation. Supposedly only 8 to 12 sessions of CBT are needed to cure a phobia - unless the phobia is fear of success.
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