January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Nurse Al Romeo from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services is here to give us a few tips to help prevent birth defects. Are birth ...

A new bill up for debate could help reduce the risk of birth defects. The bill looks to fortify enriched grain products with ...

For all the women thinking of getting pregnant or expecting, it is extremely important to know and understand the risk of birth defects. While they cannot always be prevented, experts say there are a ...

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved folic acid fortification in corn masa flour, a flour derived from dried corn kernels and used to make corn tortillas and tamales. Folic acid, ...

Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans, affecting more than 175,000 newborns around the world each year. Yet despite decades of research, it's still not known ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - January is the month to raise awareness about birth defects, how to prevent them, and how to support those affected. A birth defect is a health condition a baby develops before birth ...

One in every 33 babies is born with a birth defect. While some birth defects can be prevented, others may come as a surprise. Dr. Sarah Obican is Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and co-director of ...

The rate of spina bifida and anencephaly birth defects has fallen by more than one-third since the addition in 1998 of folic acid to the nation's enriched flours, rice and pastas, according to study a ...

The UK's new legal requirement for folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour does not go far enough and a bolder policy would prevent hundreds more birth defects each year, say researchers ...

A team of international researchers has demonstrated, for the first time in a field study, that using folic acid-fortified iodized table salt can prevent multiple severe birth defects. A team of ...

Nearly a decade ago, an anencephaly cluster in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties made headlines. Anencephaly is a fatal congenital malformation where major parts of the brain and skull fail to form ...

New California law adding folic acid to corn masa will help reduce birth defects in the Latino and Hispanic community.