Medicine
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“Physicians and other health
professionals should use every contact with women of childbearing age to teach them about
the benefits of daily folic acid.”
- Jennifer L. Howse, PhD
President, March of Dimes
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As a health care provider in
allopathic or osteopathic medicine, you play a fundamental role not only in the treatment
of disease, but also in prevention.
Your
challenge is to help women understand how essential folic acid is to a healthy pregnancy,
and why prevention is the best intervention.
