http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Using medication that reduces or blocks the actions of folic acid during the first trimester of pregnancy (weeks 1-12), increases the risk that the growing baby will develop abnormalities. This conclusion was reached by a team of Epidemiologists, Paediatricians, Clinical Pharmacologists, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists who examined birth and abortion data collected in Israel between 1998 and 2007. http://www.physorg.com/news174679297.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:20:05 EST news174679297 New research, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that a woman's risk of having a child with a neural tube defect (NTD), such as Spina Bifida, is not linked to folic acid related auto-antibodies. The findings refute a well publicised study in 2004, which had indicated a link between the presence of these auto-antibodies in the circulation of mothers who had children with Spina Bifida compared to those who did not. http://www.physorg.com/news166292572.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:23:26 EST news166292572 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Adelaide study has recommended that infertile couples seek advice about their lifestyle before embarking on IVF treatment or other assisted reproductive technology. http://www.physorg.com/news165842261.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:18:31 EST news165842261 (AP) -- Baby-protecting folic acid is getting renewed attention: Not only does it fight spina bifida and some related abnormalities, new research shows it also may prevent premature birth and heart defects. http://www.physorg.com/news163088554.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:23:12 EST news163088554 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 prevents only about 70 percent of these defects. http://www.physorg.com/news162490705.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 May 2009 17:18:56 EST news162490705 The Canadian policy of fortifying grain products with folic acid has already proved to be effective in preventing neural tube defects. The latest article published in the British Medical Journal by a group of researchers from the McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease (MAUDE Unit), the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University, shows that folic acid also decreases the incidence of congenital heart defects by more than 6%. http://www.physorg.com/news161520195.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 11:44:44 EST news161520195 Immigrant women are less likely to use folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida, particularly those who recently immigrated to the country, according to a new study led by a St. Michael's Hospital physician in collaboration with Statistics Canada, Health Canada and the University of Toronto. The study is the first to provide national estimates of pre-pregnancy folic acid use in Canada. http://www.physorg.com/news159098610.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:04:16 EST news159098610 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Georgia State University researcher and his colleague are investigating the effects of a decade-long requirement to fortify all cereals in the United States with folic acid, and its link with a chemical believed to play a role in cardiovascular disease. http://www.physorg.com/news157045653.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:48:13 EST news157045653 A study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that men who took a daily folic acid supplement of 1 mg daily had more than twice the risk of prostate cancer compared with men who took a placebo. http://www.physorg.com/news155926073.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:48:46 EST news155926073 Children born to women who have low blood levels of vitamin B12 shortly before and after conception may have an increased risk of a neural tube defect, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Trinity College Dublin, and the Health Research Board of Ireland. http://www.physorg.com/news155190673.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:32:20 EST news155190673 Only 17 percent of Spanish-speaking women of childbearing age in the United States are taking a multivitamin containing folic acid daily, according to the first- nationally representative folic acid awareness survey to focus on this population. http://www.physorg.com/news150388862.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:41:02 EST news150388862 University of Queensland neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central nervous system. http://www.physorg.com/news147010405.html Medicine & Health Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:13:25 EST news147010405