WE RECENTLY reported on the confusion experienced by a reader in Chicago when told that one applicator of her Estrace vaginal cream should be applied “per vagina every week” (5 April). Now Mark Hardy tells us of a broadcast in the Chicago area about a test that “helps tell time on a woman’s biological clock”. The test, says the report, “measures three hormones closely associated with the number of eggs in a woman’s ovaries. Scientists have come up with a formula to analyse the results. When combining it with factors like age and oestrogen levels, they can determine…
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