Neural Tube Defect (NTD) – all you should know Neural tube defects are one of the most severe birth defects that affect the nervous system. Read to know more about this congenital disease.

Neural tube defects or NTDs are birth defects that develop very early at the time of pregnancy. In fact, they develop earlier than a woman realises that she is pregnant.

Isa sa mga seryoso ang delikadong birth defects sa isang sanggol ay ang anencephaly. Alamin kung ano ang kondisyong ito at ...

Neural tube defects occur when the development of the spinal cord, the brain and the skull is impaired during the early weeks of pregnancy. The most frequent cause of these defects is a deficiency in ...

The rate of neural tube defects fell in the U.S. after the government mandated in 1998 that certain grain products be fortified with folic acid. Folic acid is a form of folate, or vitamin B9.

Neural tube defects are common birth defects that have been shown to be reduced through periconceptional folate supplementation, though the mechanism for this effect is unclear. Here they show ...

In comparison, neural-tube defects occurred in 14 (0.12%) of 11,300 infants born to women who had been exposed to any non-dolutegravir antiretroviral therapy from the time of conception, 0 (0.00% ...

Neural tube defects such as Meningomyelocoel is a very common association of hydrocephalus. Sometimes hydrocephalus can develop after surgery of meningomyelocoel.

--Bionano Genomics, Inc. and Greenwood Genetic Center today announced a publication in Genome Research describing the first study to use optical genome mapping to investigate the genetic landscape ...

Neural tube defects are linked with folate deficiency at the beginning of a pregnancy. So since 1998, the Food and Drug Administration has required that companies add folic acid to rice and wheat ...

Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15 ½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which ...

Suarez L et al. The effect of fever, febrile illness, and heat exposures on the risk of neural tube defects in a Texas-Mexico border population. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 2004 Oct; 70: ...