National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network

Resources

ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions.

The Society for Clinical Trials, created in 1978, is an international professional organization dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge about the design, conduct and analysis of government and industry-sponsored clinical trials and related health care research methodologies.

PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Related Journals and Websites.

MOMS is a research study designed to compare two approaches to the treatment of babies with spina bifida: surgery before birth (prenatal surgery) and surgery after birth (postnatal surgery).

The Center serves as the statistical coordinating center for large scale multicenter clinical trials and epidemiologic studies.

Established in 1977, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) is a not-for-profit organization of over 2,000 members that are dedicated to improving perinatal care.

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), created by Congress in 1962, supports and conducts research on topics related to the health of children, adults, families, and populations.