Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Ideas

The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (located within the NICHD) would like to highlight three issues that may arise in the context of the Human Placenta Project:

• Ensure that people with disabilities (PWD) are included among the subject populations – and special efforts are made to support their reproductive health and opportunities. Often, PWD are not asked about reproductive health and are not offered... more »

Placental inflammation is a key driver of adverse pregnancy events and also directly impacts fetal and neonatal development. A key focus on how inflammatory cells orchestrate immune tolerance and immunity to infection in healthy human placentas as well as how events including infection and allogeneic inflammatory responses contribute to failed trophoblast invasion, placental inflammation and pregnancy complications should... more »