Having too little folate, known as a vitamin B9 deficiency or a folate deficiency, can affect your red blood cells and cause ...

Iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia in pregnancy. Folate-deficiency anemia. Folate is the vitamin found naturally in certain foods like green leafy vegetables A type of B vitamin ...

If you have a folate deficiency (which is rare), your doctor will prescribe folic acid supplements (folic acid is a form of folate used in dietary supplements and fortified foods.) They may ...

Folate is a B vitamin that plays many important roles in the body. It's crucial for cell growth and development, red blood cell formation, and overall health. During pregnancy, folate helps reduce ...

A new review reveals how folic acid can act as both a friend and foe in breast cancer, protecting at moderate doses, but potentially fueling tumor growth when intake is excessive or genes go awry.

The 11 per cent incidence of folate deficiency in patients with early or first-trimester abortions and the 18 per cent incidence in women at the time of normal delivery probably do not differ ...

ZANZIBAR: WOMEN at the reproductive age have been advised to use folic acid drugs to address the problem of giving birth to ...

MINISTRY of Health in Zanzibar has raised concern over a growing number of babies born with spina bifida, a serious birth ...

The purpose of the present study was to ascertain whether nutritional folate deficiency of sufficient degree to cause megaloblastic changes in the hematopoietic tissues would be associated with ...