This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Folic acid is an essential nutrient you’ve likely seen on food labels or vitamin bottles — often targeting pregnant women (since it helps ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With the advent of folic-acid supplementation of certain foods, few Canadians are now getting too little of the B vitamin, a new study estimates -- in findings that ...

Folate is an essential B-vitamin that is needed for DNA synthesis and cell division. Folate deficiency can lead to anemia, and deficiency early in pregnancy can lead to neural tube defects – birth ...

Folic acid and zinc supplements did not improve semen quality or birth rates among couples seeking infertility care, a randomized trial found Live birth rates were 34% when men in the couples received ...

Before your body can use it, folic acid has to go through several metabolic steps to convert into L-methylfolate (5-MTHF), the active form of the vitamin. Naturally occurring folate also requires ...

BOSTON — Since the institution of nationwide folic acid fortification of enriched grains in the mid 1990s, the number of infants born in the United States and Canada with neural tube defects has ...

Zinc and folic acid, a pair of dietary supplements long touted as an effective treatment for male infertility, failed to improve pregnancy rates, sperm counts, and sperm potency in a new study ...