Low levels of folate (vitamin B9) in the blood may be linked to a heightened risk of dementia and death from any cause in older people, suggests research published online in the journal Evidence Based ...

Maternal serum folate levels during early to midpregnancy show a U-shaped association with congenital heart disease (CHD) risk in offspring. Both low and high folate levels are linked to an increased ...

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 ...

Purpose The roles of folate and vitamin B12 in prostate cancer (PCa) or breast cancer (BC) development are unclear. We investigated their roles using the prospective Swedish Apolipoprotein MOrtality ...

Depressed individuals with low serum folate and B12 levels and elevated serum homocysteine levels often fail to respond to conventional antidepressants. Elevated serum homocysteine is a marker for ...

In conclusion, the findings of this study suggest that increased dietary folate intake was not associated with prostate cancer risk. However, increased serum folate levels were associated with an ...

Scientists have learned more about the genetic factors that may underlie double-jointedness, also known as hypermobility, and diseases that affect connective tissue called hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos ...

A phase I/II study of AZD6244 in combination with sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

A comprehensive panel of mutation scanning assays detects mutations in the APC, TP53, KRAS, BRAF genes and hypermethylated APC and MLH1 DNA in plasma of patients with various stages of colorectal ...

An Australian study suggests that mandatory folic acid fortification may have unintended consequences, linking excess folate to rising gestational diabetes and calling for urgent policy reassessment.