{"id":7619,"date":"2011-12-06T13:19:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2011-12-06T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:19:50","slug":"7619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/12\/06\/7619\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity shines light  on birth defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Welsh charity says folic acid can prevent birth defects<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_7621\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7621\" title=\"NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7621\" title=\"NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/NoLogo_9_Shine_Big_DW-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spina bifida develops in the first 28 days of pregnancy \u2013 before many women know they are pregnant. Photograph: Shine Cymru<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A charity launched a campaign last week to prevent common birth defects<br \/> in Wales.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Shine website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shinecharity.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shine<\/a> Cymru launched the <a title=\"Go Folic! campaign website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gofolic.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go Folic! campaign<\/a> on Tuesday 29 November at the Senedd. The campaign urges all sexually active women in Wales to take daily supplements of folic acid, which can prevent many common birth defects of the nervous system including <a title=\"Spina bifida Wikipedia page\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spina_bifida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spina bifida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shine Cymru director Kate Thomas said: \u201cThe most serious form [of defect], anencephaly, means that the baby will not live beyond birth, and many babies born with spina bifida face a life with serious, multiple disabilities.\u201d<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wales had the highest rate of spina bifida in the world in the 70s but despite this only 5.5% of British women take daily folic acid supplements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Welsh charity says folic acid can prevent birth defects A charity launched a campaign last week to prevent common birth defects in Wales. Shine Cymru launched the Go Folic! campaign on Tuesday 29 November at the Senedd. The campaign urges all sexually active women in Wales to take daily supplements of folic acid, which can prevent many common birth defects of the nervous system including spina bifida. Shine Cymru director Kate Thomas said: \u201cThe most serious form [of defect], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":7732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1665,1666,1667,1668,1669,1670],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-birth-defect","tag-folic-acid","tag-hydrocephalus","tag-shine-cymru","tag-spina-bifida","tag-tanni-grey-thompson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charity shines light on birth defects - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/12\/06\/7619\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charity shines light on birth defects - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Welsh charity says folic acid can prevent birth defects A charity launched a campaign last week to prevent common birth defects in Wales. 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