Moms&#39; prenatal vitamins cut childhood cancers
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Women who take multivitamins  before and during pregnancy apparently reduce the chances that  their offspring will develop certain types of childhood tumors,  researchers report.
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Researchers in the UK report a possible increase in the risk of developing breast cancer among women who take folate supplements while pregnant.
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Your parents may still tell you to take your vitamins, but a cancer doctor might be less enthusiastic. A recent study that found calcium and vitamin D supplements don&#039;t reduce the odds of developing breast cancer is the latest to deflate the cancer-prevention claims of some vitamin proponents.
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Women who take high doses of folic acid during pregnancy may increase the risk of getting breast cancer, according to research. A study involving almost 3,000 mums-to-be found women who took the supplement
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Larger babies have higher risk of developing certain cancers in adulthood, research suggests.
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Giving infants oranges and bananas regularly may halve their risk of developing childhood leukaemia, suggest the results of a new study.
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Fortifying foods such as flour and pasta with folic acid could significantly reduce the likelihood of babies being born with disabilities such as spina bifida, a study shows.
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Building hope for one pill to prevent many cancers, vitamin D cut the risk of several types of cancer by 60 percent overall for older women in the most rigorous study yet.
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Many cancer survivors gobble down vitamins, but research shows that sometimes supplements can do more harm than good.
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Mums-to-be told to get enough vitamin E as low levels during pregnancy increase the risk of childhood asthma.
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Pregnant women who eat a Mediterranean diet may help protect their babies from asthma and other allergies.
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U.S. investigators have found that children who ate oranges and bananas or drank orange juice most days of the week before age 2 were significantly less likely than other children to be diagnosed with leukemia before age 14.
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Increasing a mother's intake of folic acid by adding the vitamin to food supplies has been shown to cut the risk of having a baby with neural tube defects, a birth defect in which the spine doesn't fuse properly. However, new research indicates that this benefit is much weaker in overweight and obese women.
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Adding folic acid to foods can significantly reduce the number of babies born with spina bifida and other birth defects, according to a new study by Canadian researchers.
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Breast cancer patients who take a multivitamin or extra vitamin E experience a smaller decrease in important immune cells, a common side effect of chemotherapy, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK DEC 09, 2004  - Researchers in the UK report a non-significantly increased risk of breast cancer among women who, in the 1960s, took folate supplements while pregnant, according to an article in the December 11th issue of the
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An "extremely high" proportion  of pregnant women living in the northern United States, and  their newborns, have insufficient vitamin D levels, and taking  prenatal vitamins may not increase vitamin D levels adequately.