Scientists Urge UK to Fortify Flour With Folic Acid to Limit Birth Defects Scientists Urge UK to Fortify Flour With Folic Acid to Limit Birth Defects
Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - February 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Folic acid: Why scientists want it added to flour
Scientists hope folic acid in flour could lower the number of babies born with birth defects. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Put folic acid in bread to protect babies, says study
A major new study has concluded that adding folic acid to flour and bread in Britain would help protect babies from devastating medical conditions such as spina bifida. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Folic acid: new research is a 'gamechanger' in push to fortify British foods
Study concludes there is no need for an upper limit on folate, removing a further barrier to mandatory fortification that would prevent birth defectsBread and flour should be fortified with folic acid in the UK to help prevent babies from being born with neural tube defects such asspina bifida, according to new research.A study by Queen Mary University of London and the School of Advanced Study at the University of London concludes that there is no need for an upper limit of folate intake.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 31, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Smithers Tags: Health Pregnancy Medical research Food & drink industry Business Family wellbeing Life and style Parents and parenting Science Society UK news Source Type: news
'Overwhelming' evidence for adding folic acid to flour
The B vitamin, which can prevent birth defects, will not harm the general public, a study says. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists urge UK to fortify flour with folic acid to limit birth defects
LONDON(Reuters) - Britain's failure to legislate to make food producers fortify flour with folic acid to help prevent babies being born with birth defects is based on flawed analysis and should be reversed, scientists said on Wednesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Government Urged To Fortify Food With Folic Acid To Prevent Birth Defects
The UK should fortify flour with folate to prevent babies being born with serious birth defects, say researchers, who show that previous data on the dangers of taking too much is flawed (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 31, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Helen Thomson, Contributor Source Type: news
Hundreds of children born with defects because of folic acid mistake
A "STATISTICAL error" that resulted in an upper limit being set for daily folic acid intake may have contributed to hundreds of children being born with common birth defects, scientists say. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Who Really Needs to Go Gluten-Free
Consumer Reports also found that some gluten-free foods have more fat, sugar and/or salt than their regular counterparts, and are short on nutrients like iron and folic acid -- found in foods with enriched-wheat flour. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - January 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prenatal Vitamins and Folic Acid Linked to Lower Autism Risk Prenatal Vitamins and Folic Acid Linked to Lower Autism Risk
Women who take folic acid and multivitamins before and during pregnancy may be less likely to have children with autism than mothers who don ’ t use these supplements, an Israeli study suggests.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Health Tip: Why Women Need Folic Acid
-- Folic acid is a form of vitamin B that ' s important for women, especially those who are pregnant or who could become pregnant.
Folic acid can help prevent serious birth defects of the brain and spinal cord called neural tube defects. The vitamin... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Vitamins in Pregnancy May Lower Autism Risk Vitamins in Pregnancy May Lower Autism Risk
Children of mothers who took folic acid or multivitamins before or during pregnancy were at lower risk for autism spectrum disorder, researchers say, but more research is needed.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Vitamins in Pregnancy Linked to Less Autism in Offspring Vitamins in Pregnancy Linked to Less Autism in Offspring
Children of mothers who took folic acid or multivitamins before or during pregnancy were at lower risk for autism spectrum disorder, researchers say, but more research is needed.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - January 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Maternal Folic Acid, Multivitamin Use May Cut ASD Risk in Offspring
Autism spectrum disorder risk lower in those whose moms took supplements before, while pregnant (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - January 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Family Medicine, Gynecology, Neurology, Nursing, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Psychiatry, Journal, Source Type: news
Announcement: National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Folic Acid Awareness Week — January 2018
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - January 4, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: news
