Folate, an essential B vitamin, is necessary for the human body to function and many countries, including the United States, require that bread and grain products be fortified with folic acid to ...

Researchers in Israel studied 45,300 children born between Jan. 1, 2003 and Dec. 31, 2007, also looking at survey data that indicated whether their mothers were prescribed multivitamin and folic ...

Excess folic acid gets dumped directly into the bloodstream. Some 80% of vitamin-takers have detectable levels of unprocessed folic acid in their blood, according to a recent study.

Scientists have highlighted possible consequences of fortifying flour with folic acid due to new evidence of how it is absorbed by the body. In May, the Food Standards Agency's Board agreed ...

Folic acid, also known as B9, is a water-soluble vitamin belonging to the folate group. Necessary for human survival, it is an essential nutrient that the body cannot produce on its own, nor can ...

Folic acid, a B vitamin, may lower autism risk and ease features of the condition, according to findings from five unrelated studies published over the past few months.

Susan Dentzer looks at the causes of spina bifida and efforts to prevent the disease by encouraging women to take more folic acid. The Wallaces have more reasons than most parents to think their ...

Folic acid is the synthetic version of a B vitamin called folate. It's found naturally in foods such as spinach, black-eyed peas and rice.

Folic acid has little effect on RNA synthesis, and consequently, when it is used alone in the treatment of pernicious anemia, neural tissue integrity will fail.

Folic acid has long been touted as an important prenatal vitamin to help prevent certain birth defects. Recent studies are now suggesting it could reduce the risk of another disorder: autism.

Regular Folic Acid Supplement versus Methyl-folate: What’s the Difference? If you are positive for a variant of the MTHFR, it is a pretty easy fix: get more folic acid.