http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Women who take a vitamin B9 supplement (folic acid) during the beginning weeks of their pregnancy can cut the risk of having a child with autism in half. But the supplement has no effect if it is started more than 8 weeks into the pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-folic-acid-lowers-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:08:56 EST news282215330 Women who took folic acid supplements in early pregnancy almost halved the risk of having a child with autism. Beginning to take folic acid supplements later in pregnancy did not reduce the risk. This is shown in new findings from the ABC Study and Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study published in the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-autism-folic-acid-supplements-pregnancy.html Autism spectrum disorders Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:30:09 EST news279906346 Researchers have established that short-term use of folic acid supplements is unlikely to substantially increase or decrease overall cancer risk and has little effect on the risk of developing any specific cancer including cancer of the colon, prostate, lung, and breast, according to a meta-analysis involving almost 50,000 individuals published Online First in the Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-meta-analysis-folic-acid-supplementation-cancer.html Health Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:30:06 EST news278272844 (Medical Xpress) -- A new study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute suggests that women who consume the recommended daily dosage of folic acid, the synthetic form of folate or vitamin B-9, during the first month of pregnancy may have a reduced risk of having a child with autism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-folic-acid-intake-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:52:54 EST news258875529 (Medical Xpress) -- Taking folic acid supplements is not going to have any meaningful effect on your risk of coronary heart disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-debate-folic-acid-heart-disease.html Cardiology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:59:05 EST news249206332 Use of folic acid supplements by women in Norway in the period 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception was associated with a reduced risk of the child having severe language delay at age 3 years, according to a study in the October 12 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-folic-acid-early-pregnancy-severe.html Health Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:48:12 EST news237569640 Taking folic acid supplements or eating fortified grain products is unlikely to worsen problems related to low levels of vitamin B12, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and five other institutions in the United States, Ireland and Norway. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-high-folate.html Health Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:43:50 EST news226820446 Folic acid supplements given to pregnant and breast-feeding rats reduced the rate of colon cancer in their offspring by 64 per cent, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-folic-acid-mother-rats-offspring.html Health Thu, 26 May 2011 15:26:23 EST news225642227