Eating foods to support healthy hair doesn’t have to mean overhauling your entire diet. In fact, many of the best foods for ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is alerting the public about the recall of one batch of Juhel Folic acid 5mg x1000 tablet, describing the product as ...

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Current strategies are failing to equitably reduce NTDs in Scotland. Monitoring of future trends is needed to assess the impact of mandatory folic acid fortification. Data are available upon ...

Objective To explore if there is an increased cancer risk associated with folic acid supplements given orally. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies of folic acid ...

To reduce neural tube defects (NTDs), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated that by January 1998 all enriched grain products should contain 140 μg of folic acid (FA)/100 g of flour.

The exception is supplemental folic acid for women of child-bearing potential, Appel says. “Folic acid prevents neural tube defects in babies when women take it before and during early pregnancy. That ...

Elaine Healy, MD, FACP is a practicing geriatric physician and certified nursing home medical director.

Charles Babington has lived, worked and sailed in the Annapolis area for 30 years. For a town of only 40,000 people, Annapolis boasts a proud resume: Colonial past, military esteem, world-class ...

That being said, the researchers point out that eliminating cysteine from human diets is all but impossible because the amino acid is found in nearly all foods. Knocking out its production ...

Gene edited mice that are unable to create an important amino acid lose weight extremely rapidly, a finding that could lead to the development of drugs targeting the amino acid in the future.