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The Placenta

Sue Broom visits the UK's first specialist placenta clinic in Manchester to discover how scientists are trying to prevent premature birth and miscarriage.

The placenta is the baby's life support system, but much is still not known about how it works and how to help when things go wrong. The charity Tommy's has created the UK's first placenta clinic in Manchester. Sue Broom meets the patients hoping that the scientists in the labs there can discover why the placenta can fail to implant or produce the wide blood vessels crucial to the baby's growth.

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Mon 16 Nov 2009 21:00
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