Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to results from the ongoing Tsepamo study in Botswana, infants born to women who took the integrase ...

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 ...

Environmental and genetic factors lead to neural tube defects in 1 in every 1,000 births and cause 1 in 20 of every spontaneous abortion. A study in this week's issue of Nature is the first to report ...

"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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data from the ongoing Tsepamo study in Botswana showed that the prevalence of neural tube defects, or NTDs, ...

A new study has found a link between neurological birth defects in infants commonly found in pregnant women with diabetes and several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ...

GLASGOW — Ever since four infants with neural tube defects were born to women in Botswana who were using dolutegravir at conception, researchers and surveillance experts have been scrambling to see if ...

NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Children born to women on HIV therapy containing the drug dolutegravir since conception have a slightly higher risk ...

Adding folic acid to foods like cereal and bread — long considered one of the most successful public health interventions to prevent birth defects — may be less effective than once thought, a study ...

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. New research using mice confirms the ...