What Doctors Don't Tell YouCarbamazepine (CBZ), the latest drug of choice for epilepsy, may cause birth defects. ...
Taking folic acid (one of the B vitamins) can protect you from producing a baby with spina bifida. ...
DOWN'S SYNDROME: It's not the age of the mother that counts after all
To reassure women that their babies are healthy, medicine has come up with a battery of tests that look for fetal abnormalities. Some, like amniocentesis, are invasive tests that carry risks for the baby.
Fertility drugs can increase the chances of birth defects such as spina bifida by nearly six times, one report has suggested. Another says the risks are doubled, while a third has concluded there ...
Health regulators in the UK and the US are arguing over the levels of folic acid that should be included in food to reduce the risks of spina bifida in newborns. The UK government believes none is ...
The US and Britain are planning to add folic acid to foods to reduce the risk of spina bifida babies. But new research shows this is only half the story, and that women low in B12 could also be mo ...
Women who take multivitamins early in pregnancy sharply reduce the risk of giving birth to a baby with spina bifida. A study of 23,000 women published in the Journal of the American Medical Assoc ...
Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumours have come to light. ... ...
