Adding folic acid to food best for cutting birth defects

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Women with higher intake of folic acid reduce their risk of bearing children with neural tube defects, according to researchers from the University College of Dublin, Ireland. Pregnant women with a blood folate level of 906 mmol/L or higher has eightfold decrease in the risk of bearing children with neural disorders compared to women with levels of 340 mmol/L or less. Researchers suggest fortifying common foods, such as flour, with increased amounts of folic acid.

Neurological R&D, Health aspects, Abnormalities, Folic acid, Birth defects, Nutritional aspects, Neural tube, Neural tube defects, Neurological research, Folic acid in human nutrition

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Dentists, CDC urge team approach against oral cancer

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as several dentists groups sponsored a meeting in August 1996 to increase awareness of and define guidelines for diagnosing and treating oral cancer. Attendees agreed that diagnosing oral cancer would have to become of primary concern to physicians as well as to dentists if the disease was to be stemmed. The meeting also resolved that more research was necessary to help better diagnose and treat oral cancer.

Offices and clinics of dentists, Offices of Dentists, Cancer & Cell R&D, Dentists, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Diagnosis, Cancer research, Cancer, Cancer diagnosis, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Some blood donors may hide risks

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In a confidential mail survey of people who had donated blood in the past two months, 1.9% of the 34,726 respondents admitted that risk factors were present at the time of their past donation. Only 8.2% of the units donated by those admitting the risk factors were screened out in the donor screening procedures. Donor qualification procedures need further refining, since 12 million donations are drawn each year in the US.

Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing, Viral Disease R&D, Blood and Organ Banks, Biological products exc. diagnostic, Health and allied services, not elsewhere classified, Blood Plasma & Products, Blood Banks & Collection Centers, Safety and security measures, Surveys, HIV infection, HIV infections, Viral research, Blood-borne diseases, Bloodborne diseases, Blood donors, Blood donation, Blood products, Blood banks

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