St. Louis, May 25, 2009 — Women of childbearing age can reduce the risk of having a child born with a neural tube defect such as spina bifida by eating enough folate or folic acid. However, folate ...

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, ...

A folic acid supplement is recommended during pregnancy and prior to conception because it reduces the risk of neural tube defects in babies. Social media posts have claimed that people should avoid ...

The rhetoric in wellness circles online is that folic acid is synthetic and therefore bad. Dr. Sharma says that it's "painted as inferior to methylated folate–often marketed as the bioavailable, ...

Spina bifida is a spine condition that doctors usually notice at birth. It is a neural tube defect that emerges early in a fetus’s development and can occur anywhere along the spine. In spina bifida, ...

STUDY QUESTION What are the long term trends in the total (live births, fetal deaths, and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomaly) and live birth prevalence of neural tube defects (NTD) in Europe, ...