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

After controlling for familial factors, acid-suppressive medications in pregnancy showed no association with risk for ...

Practitioners who treat mothers and babies before and after birth are uniting to spread the word about birth defects. The Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network held a news conference with ...

Mom-and-pop shops will be exempt from this change, but big manufacturers in California will need to start adding folic acid ...

Doctors explain why taking folic acid before pregnancy matters, how folate status affects fertility, and when to start ...

Maternal gut–immune stress shapes fetal brain development differently in males and females, revealing sex-specific pathways ...

Each year, 41,000 babies in Vietnam are born with defects. IVF and gene screening are offering families hope for healthy ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers have mapped how stress events during pregnancy can affect the neuroimmune landscape of the developing foetal brain.

With early diagnosis, expert surgical care, and intensive support, many of the babies with critical congenital heart disease ...

California now requires tortillas to be fortified with folic acid to reduce birth defects in the Latino community, where ...

Thyroid disorders can quietly disrupt women’s reproductive health, affecting periods, fertility, and pregnancy. Understand ...

If this intrepid FDA reviewer was around today, she'd probably be the subject of some nasty tweets (or, indeed, fired).