Neural tube defects are common birth defects that have been shown to be reduced through periconceptional folate supplementation, though the mechanism for this effect is unclear. Here they show that ...

Analysis of U.S. survey data showed that two-thirds of reproductive age women had one or more modifiable risk factors for birth defects. Common risk factors included obesity, folate concentrations ...

Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect. During pregnancy, your baby's brain and spine start to form as a flat disk of cells. This flat disk rolls into a tube-like structure called the neural tube ...

About 300,000 to 400,000 fetuses per year from mothers with diabetes develop neural tube defects -- when the tissue that eventually forms the brain and spinal cord fails to form properly -- which can ...

Major congenital anomalies occur in 2% to 3% of live births. Neural tube defects (NTDs), cleft lip and palate, and cardiac anomalies are some of the most common. NTDs are a group of serious birth ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated folic acid fortification of all enriched cereal grains in 1996, and this regulation resulted in a reduction of neural tube defect (NTD)–affected ...

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 ...

image: Mutations in a gene known as interferon regulatory factor 6 that cause cleft lip and palate also are implicated in neural tube defects such as spina bifida, suggests research by an ...

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, ...

Researchers have identified a gene that plays a key role in the formation of neural tube defects, a problem commonly found in infants of pregnant women with diabetes. This is the first time the gene ...

The Department of Neurological Sciences and Spinal Dysraphism Clinic of Christian Medical College (CMC) will organise a public awareness and an exhibition on periconceptional folic acid ...