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Health experts say tighter regulations around pregnancy supplements are needed as newer brands replace folic acid — a key ...

The United States Preventive Services Task Force still says that all women planning to have a child or capable of having one take 0.4 to 0.8 milligrams of folic acid in a supplement daily, according ...

DHA has implemented instructions to reduce brain and spinal cord defects Dubai Health Authority’s Latifa Women and Children Hospital announced the implementation of a new folic acid consumption ...

Folic acid could dramatically reduce the risk of heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and stroke if levels of homocysteine (an amino acid) were reduced, according to researchers in this week's BMJ.

Fifty-five students of the government primary school in Basidoni village of Saundatti taluk fell ill on Monday evening after consuming folic acid tablets. The government supplies the tablets to ...

Background: In previous studies, maternal exposure to folic acid antagonists was associated with increased risks of neural tube defects, cardiovascular defects, oral clefts and urinary tract defects.

New Delhi: Less than half the students in government-run schools are getting iron and folic acid tablets under a government programme, compromising aims to combat anaemia among adolescent girls. The ...

A group of 16 primary school children in a village in Ratanpur area of Bilaspur district started feeling stomach pain and vomiting sensations after they were given iron and folic acid tablets by the ...