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Slideshow: The Amazing Benefits of Milk

October 3, 2008

It’s not just for cereal anymore. This drink is packed with calcium and vitamin D, and it fights puffy eyes, dry skin, and even PMS. View our slideshow.

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Marcia Cross: Her Happy New Life

April 21, 2008

On “Desperate Housewives,” Marcia Cross’s Bree Van de Camp quickly finds Mr. Perfect, Dr. Orson Hodge, and the two build a family together. Cut to real life: For years, Marcia had searched for the right guy and battled infertility. But during the show’s first season, the then-42-year-old met stockbroker Tom Mahoney. They married in June 2006 and, through in vitro treatments, had twin girls, Eden and Savannah, now 13 months old. Here, the Emmy-nominated actress opens up about her struggle to conceive, her pregnancy health scare, and what life’s like with twins (crazy, but she’s not complaining!). Read More

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Is Your Fertility Window Closing?

February 22, 2008

Women in their 30s and early 40s have new options for gauging whether they’re still fertile: Doctor’s-office and at-home tests supposedly can estimate the number of viable eggs in their ovaries. There is a booming market for this kind of ovarian-reserve testing. In the United Kingdom, a private company associated with the University of Sheffield is even selling a mail-in blood test (it’s not yet available in the United States).
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