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By Roni Caryn Rabin / The Bulletin
August 27, 2009
A small placenta can endanger a fetus by limiting the delivery of food and oxygen. Now, researchers at Yale have developed an easy method of measuring the volume of the placenta during pregnancy.
The doctor who developed the technique, which uses ultrasound, likens the placenta to a fuel tank....