The UK Government's current proposal to fortify one type of flour with folic acid is inadequate as it suggests a low dose that would fail to prevent hundreds of cases of severe birth defects each year ...

"Well over half of neural tube defects can be prevented with sufficient folic acid consumption before conception and in early pregnancy," said senior author Sandi Lam, MD, MBA, Division Head of ...

Dolutegravir is a preferred medication for treating HIV infection, but it recently has been linked to a 6- to 9-fold increase in the risk for neural tube defects among babies born to mothers receiving ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One study found a reduced risk for neural tube defects when folic acid was used before and during pregnancy. The ...

Only about 25 per cent of women in many countries voluntarily take folic acid tablets before conception, says a University of Toronto researcher. Only about 25 per cent of women in many countries ...

January 11, 2008 — Knowledge of the importance of taking folic acid prenatally may be linked to incidence of infant neural tube defects, according to the results of a survey reported in the January 11 ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Adding folic acid to foods like cereal and bread — long considered one of the ...

It has been known for some time that folic acid is vital to a healthy pregnancy, although researchers have been unsure exactly what the underlying physiological mechanisms of this requirement are. New ...

In making its recommendations for an appropriate intake of folic acid, the Policy and Practice Guidelines Committee did not consider the modeled calculations published by Wald et al. 4 in 2001, ...

The UK government should fortify food with folic acid to protect babies from serious birth defects, say researchers. A study published today shows that the maximum suggested intake for folic acid is ...

A multi-institutional research team has developed a novel folic acid-resistant neural tube defect mouse model of the human condition by silencing the Slc25a32 gene, and, in most of the mutant mice, ...