Florida State University researchers have demonstrated that significantly increasing dietary folic acid in mice can prevent peripheral neuropathy, a condition commonly associated with diabetes and ...

California this year became the first state to require food makers to add folic acid, a crucial vitamin, to corn masa flour used to make tortillas and other foods. Other states may do likewise.

"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 ...

SAN DIEGO, and GREENWOOD, S.C., March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bionano Genomics (BNGO), Inc. and Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) today announced a publication in Genome Research describing the ...

A California state law passed in January that required food makers to add folic acid to corn masa flour. An afterthought for ...

Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing ...

Babies who were exposed to certain organic pollutants in the womb are at a highly increased risk of neural tube defects leading to conditions such as spina bifida, according to researchers in China.

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 ...