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...score very well might have been knotted at two 15:06 into the second frame, when Harvard blueliner Dave MacDonald was called for tripping and the Eagles’ Dave Spina was awarded a penalty shot...
...birth defects, teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S. to deliver a public-health message: women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. It's a simple act of preventive medicine that cuts the risk of neural-tube defects like spina bifida in developing fetuses by more than 50%. Apparently the message stuck. A March of Dimes poll designed to gauge awareness of the supplement's benefits found that while only half of American women ages 18 to 45 knew what folic acid was in 1995, that figure has now jumped...
...organization teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to deliver a public-health message: women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms of the vitamin daily. It is a simple act of preventive medicine that cuts the risk of neural-tube defects like spina bifida more than 50% in developing fetuses. Apparently the message stuck. A March of Dimes poll designed to gauge awareness of the supplement's benefits found that while only half of women ages 18 to 45 knew what folic acid was in 1995, that figure has now jumped to 77%. By 2004, the number...
...pregnant women who took valproate—a widely-prescribed anti-convulsive drug—about 8.9 percent gave birth to babies with major deformations such as heart defects, spina bifida and kidney abnormalities, a figure more than five times greater than the birth-defect rate of women who did not take valproate...
NEURAL-TUBE DEFECTS These include spina bifida and anencephaly, each of which affects 1 or 2 of every 10,000 live births...