Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing ...

Under the law, food makers must add 0.7 milligrams of folic acid per pound of corn masa flour and 0.4 milligrams per pound of ...

Couples in south central Washington face a difficult reality. They are four times more likely to conceive a child with a fatal birth defect. Since 2010, 31 babies in Yakima, Benton and Franklin ...

CORN tortillas are set to undergo an historic major recipe shakeup in the United States due to a new law. The change will protect more Americans from being born with a fatal condition – ...

After the troubling discovery earlier this year that Yakima County had logged an unexpectedly high number of fatal birth defects in 2012, the state Department of Health said Tuesday that its ...

The rate of spina bifida and anencephaly birth defects has fallen by more than one-third since the addition in 1998 of folic acid to the nation's enriched flours, rice and pastas, according to study a ...