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...almost dropped." Lucretia Wigand says through her lawyer that "the notoriety of the claims and counterclaims between Dr. Wigand and the tobacco industry have caused tremendous stress to the family." Wigand now lives in a bare bachelor apartment, while his two daughters, Rachel, 9, who has spina bifida and requires expensive daily medical treatments, and Nicole, 7, remain with their mother. Lucretia's job at a Louisville department store offers adequate medical coverage for Rachel, whose condition is improving...
Flour and other grain products are now required to be fortified with folic acid, a nutrient that reduces the risk of neural-tube birth defects like spina bifida. About 2,500 infants are born each year with such defects, which occur in the fetus before most women know they are pregnant...
...simple tube of cells is as crucial to life as it is beautiful to contemplate. But any defect in this neural tube, likely to appear early in development, can be devastating. Among the possible results: anencephaly, in which a baby is born minus most of its brain, and spina bifida...
...vitamin attracting attention is folic acid, also known as folate, which was first isolated from spinach. This B vitamin appears to guard against two of the most common and devastating neurological defects afflicting newborns in the U.S.: spina bifida, in which there is incomplete closure of the spine, and anencephaly, in which the brain fails to develop fully. British researchers found that when women who had already given birth to a malformed child received folic acid supplements during a subsequent pregnancy, the chances of a second tragic birth fell sharply...
...courts allowed a couple to refuse surgery for their baby born with Down's syndrome and an incomplete esophagus; after six days, the baby starved to death. That emotional case raised the concern that some hospitals were not recommending even routine treatment for babies with Down's syndrome, spina bifida, cerebral palsy and other serious but treatable disabilities...