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1,300 babies each year saved from serious birth defects of brain and spine by folic acid
2015-01-19 10:41:50| Biotech - Topix.net
Fortifying grain foods with the B vitamin folic acid has saved about 1,300 babies every year from being born with serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects , according to new data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . The number of babies born in the United States with these conditions has declined by 35 percent since 1998.
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