Bread and flour will be fortified with an essential vitamin in a bid to prevent serious birth defects in hundreds of babies ...

The UK government is to press ahead with adding folic acid to flour to try to prevent hundreds of babies each year from being born with neural tube defects. Folic acid deficiency is a leading cause of ...

“The news that fortification of flour with folic acid is to be implemented at long last is welcome. Folic acid (vitamin B9) supplementation was shown to reduce neural tube defects by about 80% in a ...

UK mandates folic acid fortification in non-wholemeal flour by 2026, aiming to prevent 200 birth defects annually such as ...

Bread and flour will be fortified with a vital vitamin in an effort to prevent serious birth defects in hundreds of babies ...

A common acid reflux medication taken by 15 per cent of the UK population could be contributing to a rise in scurvy cases, ...

URGENT: Go to your medicine cabinet and find your multivitamin or other supplements that you are currently taking,” begins a ...

Folic acid is an essential nutrient for expectant mothers as it aids in averting brain and spine abnormalities in the baby. Even though wholesome foods such as beans and leafy vegetables are good ...

In the great majority of these reports direct evidence for either folic acid or vitamin B 12 deficiency has been incomplete or absent, and therapeutic responses to huge "pharmacologic" doses of ...