Prenatal care is essential for the health of expectant mothers and newborns alike. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office on Women's Health notes that babies of mothers who don't get ...

Pregnant women with either low or excessively high levels of folate in their blood may face a greater risk of their children developing congenital heart disease, according to a study from Guangdong ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Most of us are probably somewhat familiar with folic acid; it has long been touted as a necessity during ...

A new international clinical intervention study published in Clinical Nutrition reveals the molecular and transcriptomic mechanisms through which a dietary intervention may beneficially influence gene ...

The best nutrition is personal - that's true when pregnant, post-partum and at pretty much every other time of life, too, as what you like and need will be different from any other person. But, there ...

Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate (vitamin B9) that plays a vital role in cell growth, DNA formation, and red blood cell production. During pregnancy, it helps prevent serious birth defects ...

The latest psychiatry journals are absolutely hopping with trials of folic acid and its downstream metabolite, methylfolate. We have this article from AJP, this one from JAMA Archives, along with ...

Folates participate in the one-carbon metabolism (OCM) cycle, supporting many biochemical pathways. Existing methods to profile folate are limited in the diversity of vitamers they measure and the ...