Infertility and Fertility: For Researchers and Health Care Providers

• The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists provides information on management of women's health issues and offers practice bulletins. http://www.acog.org/
• The American Association of Family Physicians compiled the key recommendations for practice when treating infertility. http://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0315/p849.html
• MedlinePlus, a service offered by the National Library of Medicine, contains links to current research in infertility, including financial issues, clinical trials, genetics, and journal articles. It also contains a section on the latest news on infertility. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infertility.html
• Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility Research (SCCPIR) is a national network of research-based centers promoting multidisciplinary interactions between basic and clinical scientists interested in establishing high quality translational research programs in the reproductive sciences. http://nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/pages/sccpir.aspx
• The Jackson Laboratory site on reproductive genomics describes ongoing research efforts to create a mouse model for infertility through random chemical mutagenesis. http://reproductivegenomics.jax.org/
• The Reproductive Medicine Network (RMN) carries out large, multicenter clinical trials of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for male and female infertility and reproductive diseases and disorders. The Network is funded through the NICHD's Reproductive Sciences (RS) Branch and comprises seven research sites and a data-coordinating center. http://nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/pages/rmn.aspx
  http://c2s2.yale.edu/rmn/index.html
• The Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network, funded through the NICHD Pregnancy & Perinatology Branch, seeks to understand the causes of stillbirth, improve stillbirth reporting, and develop preventive interventions for the condition. http://nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/pages/scrn.aspx
  https://scrn.rti.org/
• Annual reports of divisions and branches of the NICHD describe the research and training they support. Examples include the following:
  • Reproductive Sciences Branch, NICHD. Report to the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development (NACHHD) Council, January 2007 http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/Documents/rs_branch_council_report_2007.pdf (PDF - 696 KB)
  • Pregnancy & Perinatology Branch, NICHD. Report to the NACHHD Council, September 2008 http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/Documents/PPB_Council_Report_2008.pdf (PDF - 1.15 MB)
  • Pregnancy & Perinatology Branch, NICHD. A Strategic Plan 2005-2010 http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/ppb_strategicplan_2010/Documents/ppb_strategicplan_2010_full.pdf (PDF - 634 KB)

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