Summer babies grow up to be healthier adults

A new study suggests that babies born during June, July or August have higher birth weights and are taller as adults, and girls born in summer have a later onset of puberty.

Only one third of women take folic acid before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida

Research recently published from Queen Mary University of London reveals less than 1 in 3 women have taken folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida and other birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord (neural tube defects).

New Birth Control Pill Beyaz Includes Folic Acid, Columnist Writes

“If you have ever sought the perfect birth control, then you well know how troublesome popular contraceptive methods can be,” including the birth control pill, which can “come with a host of side effects” like weight gain, mood swings and low libido, columnist and sexual health therapist Laura Berman writes in the Chicago Sun-Times…

New Birth Control Pill Beyaz Includes Folic Acid, Columnist Writes

“If you have ever sought the perfect birth control, then you well know how troublesome popular contraceptive methods can be,” including the birth control pill, which can “come with a host of side effects” like weight gain, mood swings and low libido, columnist and sexual health therapist Laura Berman writes in the Chicago Sun-Times…