It’s long been known that pregnant women should take folic acid to help protect their baby from birth defects. But now it seems the vitamin can help reduce the risk of dementia, and having low levels ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Maternal folate levels that were too low or too high were associated with risk of congenital heart disease in ...

As a geriatrician, I often order serum folate levels as part of a workup for dementia or anemia. How accurate is the statement that “serum folate levels are not useful because they fluctuate rapidly ...

The FDA announced on Monday it has initiated the process to approve leucovorin calcium tablets for individuals with cerebral folate deficiency. Low levels of folate in the brain have been associated ...

Levels of the vitamins B12 and B6 were not associated with Alzheimer's disease risk. Higher folate intake was modestly correlated with lower homocysteine levels, "indirectly suggesting that a lower ...

Folic acid can affect how your thyroid functions and vice versa. Learn about how they interact and when supplements may be ideal.

Trump Administration introduced what it says is an “exciting treatment” for autism: leucovorin, a decades-old medicine that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - By now, most women probably know that adequate levels of folate are important to prevent a major pregnancy complication, but in recent years folate levels have decreased ...

A new article published in the American Journal of Hypertension finds that babies born to mothers with cardiometabolic risk factors were less likely to develop high blood pressure if their mothers had ...

Background: Epilepsy is the most common childhood neurological disorder in Nigeria. Treatment of epilepsy is long-term and sometimes lifelong with anti-seizure medications. There are conflicting ...

A new study led by researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin challenges claims from some international scientific circles, that having high blood levels ...