Maternal serum folate levels during early to midpregnancy show a U-shaped association with congenital heart disease (CHD) risk in offspring. Both low and high folate levels are linked to an increased ...

About 10% of patients who come to complex care hospitals may have low levels of folate and other indicators of malnutrition, investigators say. To ensure those patients are identified and helped, ...

Folic acid supplementation throughout pregnancy was correlated with a lower risk of early-onset Kawasaki disease in offspring, a Japanese observational study showed. In a propensity score-matched ...

In a recent review article published in Nutrients, researchers summarized what is known about the effects of excessive folic acid (FA) supplementation for mothers on children. Study: Risk of Excess ...

A phase I/II study of AZD6244 in combination with sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

As erectile dysfunction severity increased, serum folic acid levels decreased, an analysis found. Folic acid deficiency may contribute to erectile dysfunction (ED), a new systematic review concludes.

Scientists have learned more about the genetic factors that may underlie double-jointedness, also known as hypermobility, and diseases that affect connective tissue called hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos ...

A comprehensive panel of mutation scanning assays detects mutations in the APC, TP53, KRAS, BRAF genes and hypermethylated APC and MLH1 DNA in plasma of patients with various stages of colorectal ...

Researchers have been awarded £1.9 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to evaluate the impact of the UK's mandatory folic acid ...