The Canadian policy of fortifying grain products with folic acid has already proved to be effective in preventing neural tube defects. The article published in the British Medical Journal by a group of researchers from the McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease (MAUDE Unit), the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University, shows that folic acid also decreases the incidence of congenital heart defects by more than 6%.

Women who take folic acid supplements for at least one year before they become pregnant may cut their risk of Preterm Birth, according to research published this week in the online journal, PLoS Medicine.

A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health finds that folic acid supplements can dramatically lower blood arsenic levels in individuals exposed to arsenic through contaminated drinking water.

Taking folic acid supplements does not reduce the risk of developing precancerous tumors in the colon and may even increase the risk, a new study has found.