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 ...

Folic acid is essential to help you prevent neural tube defects during pregnancy. Taking folic acid may help lower your risk of stroke and slow age-related macular degeneration. Folic acid is the ...

Most of us are probably somewhat familiar with folic acid; it has long been touted as a necessity during pregnancy and is the synthetic form of folate used in supplements and added to fortified foods ...