Vitamins and supplements can help fill nutritional gaps while supporting various aspects of health, like fertility, mood, menstrual health, and heart health.

The world is scrambling to understand whether and how the Zika virus might have caused the birth of numerous infants with abnormally small heads in Latin America. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Hispanic ...

If you’re planning a pregnancy or you’re already pregnant, chances are your doctor told you to take a prenatal vitamin with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects like spina bifida and anencephaly.

With about 50% of pregnancies in the U.S. unplanned, many women aren’t practicing prenatal care in the first weeks after conception. And for the 23% of women and girls of childbearing age lacking in ...

Think you are getting all of the vitamins you need from your diet alone? Truth is, most of us are not. It is hard to get enough of certain vitamins from food alone. One vitamin everyone needs is folic ...

The United States Preventive Services Task Force still says that all women planning to have a child or capable of having one take 0.4 to 0.8 milligrams of folic acid in a supplement daily, according ...

Authors cautioned that more studies were needed to replicate findings. — -- If you're pregnant, a new study released today may give you one more reason to listen to your doctor if he or she ...

A daily supplementation combination that included folic acid and vitamin B6 and B12 had no significant effect on the overall risk of cancer, including breast cancer, among women at high risk of ...

New research suggests folic acid and prenatal multivitamins may be linked to lower autism risk. Here’s what experts say – and ...

Doctors generally advise pregnant women to get folic acid through their diet or vitamin supplements. Taking folic acid, or vitamin B9, before or during early pregnancy is known to protect babies ...

Autism spectrum disorder affects up to 1 per cent of children globally, leading to social communication and behavioral challenges.

TAKING folic acid and multivitamin supplements during pregnancy may significantly lower the risk of autism spectrum disorder ...