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Is Your Baby The Cutest?

Moms and dads: Think your bundle of joy is the most adorable in Bergen County? Enter the Cutest Baby contest for a chance to have your baby featured in Health & Life!

Win It! Put Your Best Face Forward

This month's Win it: Let the folks at 'Do Well Be Well' help you look better than ever with this $825 skincare package! Submit your form before it's over!

Confronting A Crisis In Liver Disease

In the past decade, there has been an alarming increase in cases of liver disease including liver cancer. This menace is on the rise, but treatments are better than ever.

In a Pickle?

If you're reluctant to try your hand at pickling because you think it's too complicated, fear not! This time recipe will get your started-and it could make you the start of the next family cookout.

Cheers for Cherries

The cherry's got it all: handy size, pert round shape, ruby-red hue and a flavor so beloved it’s borrowed by everything from cola to cough drops. Not to mention health benefits galore.

Battling Hepatitis B

Sometimes certain ethnic groups face particular health conditions. Heightened awareness-and screening- can help combat this scourge of the Asian community.

Halloween Costume Contest

Do you want to see your kids in Health & Life? With Halloween a few months away, we’d like you to share your favorite photos of the kids in costume to be featured in our October issue!

The Betsy

On Ocean Drive in South Beach, a strip known worldwide for its concentration of art deco hotels, The Betsy stands out as a different kind of grande dame.

Gin is Back... Hold the Tonic!

American craft distillers are pioneering some delicious variations on the classic botanical spirit. This summer, ditch the tonic, which would overpower the delicate flavors, and add fresh fruit or herbs to your glass.

Hope for Fragile Babies

Lauren Hirschmann, 13, is a typical teen. You’d never know that when she was born, she spent 96 days in Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), fighting for her life.

Summer Sips

When it comes to liquid refreshment, there's no reason you own deck or patio should't rival the finest pub or restaurant. Let one of these refreshing seasonal cocktails be your well-earen reward at day's end.

Time to Cleanse?

These days, all the cool, gorgeous girls are doing dietary cleanses. Should you?

Cheers for Cherries

The cherry's got it all: handy size, pert round shape, ruby-red hue and a flavor so beloved it’s borrowed by everything from cola to cough drops. Not to mention health benefits galore.

Cheers for Cherries

The cherry's got it all: handy size, pert round shape, ruby-red hue and a flavor so beloved it’s borrowed by everything from cola to cough drops. Not to mention health benefits galore.

Gin is Back... Hold the Tonic!

American craft distillers are pioneering some delicious variations on the classic botanical spirit. This summer, ditch the tonic, which would overpower the delicate flavors, and add fresh fruit or herbs to your glass.

How to tell if it's an Emergency

There's nothing more frightening to a parent than a child who appears to be severely ill or injured. This list of ER-worthy situations can help decide when a sick or injured child needs immediate care.

Soft on the Skin

Sublimely soft and versatile tops are the name of the game for the women’s apparel line Body Bark.

Didier Demesmin, M.D.

Didier Demesmin, M.D., a pain specialist at Saint Peter’s University Hospital is a self-described sports freak.

8 Great Wines Under $25

Expert picks that prove you needn't be a big spender to make a big impression. Our oenologist-in-chief selects eight - and wallet friendly - wines.

Summer Asthma Alert

For children with this respiratory disorder, the season's warm days can bring danger.

Jessica's Spirit

She lived less than 23 years. She never spoke. And her grandfather will never forget her.

Anna Marie O’Neill, M.D.

Children are the center of both the professional and personal lives of Anna Marie O’Neill, M.D., an ob/gyn and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Saint Peter’s University hospital.