Vitamin B :: Folate in the Making
We can only get folate, an important B vitamin, from food or supplements, but bacteria can make it themselves. Recently, researchers at Johns Hopkins University identified a long-sought enzyme that completes our scientific understanding of folate production in E. coli bacteria and offers a possible new target for antibiotic [...]
Vitamin B :: Folate and B12 may influence cognition in seniors
Folate may protect cognition in seniors, but only with adequate levels of vitamin B12. In an epidemiological study, low B-vitamin status was associated with anemia and cognitive impairment. Low vitamin B12 status was especially linked to these conditions if seniors also had high folate in [...]
Vitamin B :: Dietary vitamin B6, B12 and folate, may decrease pancreatic cancer risk
Researchers exploring the notion that certain nutrients might protect against pancreatic cancer found that lean individuals who got most of these nutrients from food were protected against developing cancer. The study also suggests this protective effect does not hold true if the [...]
Vitamin :: Merck offering nature identical folate
A chemically produced folate, said to be several times more bioavailable than folic acid and recently approved for food use in Europe, gives premium supplement makers a chance to differentiate from the commonly marketed form of the vitamin, says manufacturer Merck Eprova.
The product, Metafolin, has been available in the [...]
Vitamin :: Folate in food cuts cancer risk, keeps mind strong
An observational study of about 82,000 males and females in Sweden found a lower risk of pancreatic cancer in subjects with a high intake of folate-rich foods — green, leafy vegetables; cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage; oranges; legumes and whole grains.
No lower [...]
Vitamin :: Einstein researchers discover how a key dietary vitamin folate is absorbed
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found the mechanism by which the B vitamin folate — a crucially important nutrient — is absorbed by the intestinal tract. Their findings solve a longstanding mystery as to how folates [...]
Pregnancy :: Folate fortification may not be enough for mothers
Despite the introduction of mandatory folic acid fortification of grains as much as a third of women of childbearing age are not getting the recommended amounts, says a study from Canada.
The new study, published in the current issue of The Journal of Nutrition (Vol. 136, pp. [...]
Neutral Tube Defects :: Monash University doctor awarded prestigious national fellowship
Increasing folate supplementation to reduce neural tube defects through improved pre-conception care is the goal of Associate Professor Danielle Mazza who has just received a Fellowship co-sponsored by the National Institute of Clinical Studies and the Health and Medical Research Foundation of the Hospitals Contribution [...]
Malaria :: Antifolate therapies found effective against certain type of malaria
Toby Leslie, M.Sc., of HealthNet TPO Malaria and Leishmaniasis Control Programme, Peshawar, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, and colleagues tested the relative efficacy and safety of two antifolate drugs (sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and chlorproguanil-dapsone) against P vivax malaria and compared each with chloroquine.
There are an estimated 70 million [...]
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