Folate is a naturally occurring form of vitamin B found in food, while folic acid is synthetically produced and used in fortified foods and supplements. It is well known that taking folic acid before ...

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 ...

Jan. 5 through11 is National Folic Acid Awareness Week Folic acid is a B vitamin. If a woman consumes the recommended amount of folic acid before and during early pregnancy, it can help prevent some ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging manufacturers of masa - that's a corn flour used to make foods like tortillas and tamales - to add in some folic acid. The idea is to try to ...

Several conditions associated with human neural-tube defects are known to occur naturally in dogs. A gene related to neural tube defects in dogs has for the first time been identified by researchers ...

Mutations in a gene known as interferon regulatory factor 6 that cause cleft lip and palate also are implicated in neural tube defects such as spina bifida, suggests new research. Mutations in a gene ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated folic acid fortification of all enriched cereal grains in 1996, and this regulation resulted in a reduction of neural tube defect (NTD)–affected ...