Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect. During pregnancy, your baby's brain and spine start to form as a flat disk of cells. This flat disk rolls into a tube-like structure called the neural tube ...

"Well over half of neural tube defects can be prevented with sufficient folic acid consumption before conception and in early pregnancy," said senior author Sandi Lam, MD, MBA, Division Head of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One study found a reduced risk for neural tube defects when folic acid was used before and during pregnancy. The ...

About 300,000 to 400,000 fetuses per year from mothers with diabetes develop neural tube defects -- when the tissue that eventually forms the brain and spinal cord fails to form properly -- which can ...

Scanning for serious structural issues in fetuses during the first trimester can result in earlier detection of these issues, reports a new study led by Aris Papageorghiou at the University of Oxford, ...

Spina bifida is a spine condition that doctors usually notice at birth. It is a neural tube defect that emerges early in a fetus’s development and can occur anywhere along the spine. In spina bifida, ...

More than 3 million women of birthing age in the U.S. and 60 million in the world have diabetes—a disease that occurs when blood sugar is too high. Even when controlled with insulin, and blood sugar ...