The  world has made immense progress where the field of medicine is concerned. From a time and age when diseases had the upper hand to the present, when scientists are just a few steps away from discovering the cure for some of the world's deadliest conditions.With medical advancement taking pace, the world's future seems bright and breakthroughs do give us new hope. That said, Australian scientists have discovered a dietary supplement which can prevent miscarriages, and many different types of birth defects for pregnant women.

The discovery, announced on Thursday at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, said that the common supplement Niacin, known as Vitamin B3, can cure molecular deficiencies that cause birth defects and miscarriages in women, reports news agency. Until now, the cause of 80 percent of birth defects had remained unknown to scientists, but with this…