A new bill up for debate could help reduce the risk of birth defects. The bill looks to fortify enriched grain products with ...

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 ...

Proposals to fortify some flours with a vitamin which prevents babies from developing a life-threatening spinal condition do not go far enough, leading medics have warned as they said the health ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Here's another reason for pregnant women to take folic acid supplements: they help prevent fetal heart malformations, new research from the Netherlands suggests. "Given the ...

Nearly a decade ago, an anencephaly cluster in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties made headlines. Anencephaly is a fatal congenital malformation where major parts of the brain and skull fail to form ...

Bread and flour is to be fortified with folic acid in a bid to prevent birth defects such as spina bifida in around 200 babies every year. A new law passed UK-wide today, hailed as “momentous” by ...