Estimated Placental Volume and Measure the Placenta in the Media
ARTICLE If This Pregnancy Screening Could Prevent 30% Of Stillbirths, Why Is No One Using It?
December 13, 2023
The standard of care for pregnant people is a very difficult thing to change.
PODCAST Science Friday - Placenta Research May Help Explain Pregnancy Loss
October 27, 2023
Dr. Harvey Kliman joins guest host Flora Lichtman to talk about his research, and the importance of studying the placenta as a way to better understand what leads to miscarriage and stillbirth.
ARTICLE Cologne woman advocates for stillborn awareness in D.C.
October 27, 2023
Measure the Placenta team member Amanda was featured in her hometown newspaper for her advocacy work.
ARTICLE Placenta holds answers to many unexplained pregnancy losses, study finds
September 19, 2023
Yale researchers show that placental examination could help determine the cause of more than 90% of previously unexplained pregnancy losses.
PODCAST At a Total Loss - Dr Heather Florescue, OBGYN
May 25, 2023
Dr Florescue is championing for major change in the prevention of stillbirth and she alone seems to be the only one in her field. We are hopeful that after hearing her speak, others will want to step forward and join her in the fight to end preventable stillbirth as well as help provide better bereavement and grief support to families as they navigate pregnancy after loss.
ARTICLE What You Need to Know About Stillbirths
May 3, 2023
Part of ProPublica’s ongoing series on stillbirth, this piece looks at how the U.S. has not prioritized stillbirth prevention, and American parents are losing babies even as other countries make larger strides to reduce deaths late in pregnancy. A link to Measure the Placenta is included in the piece.
PODCAST At a Total Loss - Dr Harvey Kliman
February 16, 2023
Katherine Lazar chats with Dr. Harvey Kliman about his research and medical opinion when it comes to the placenta, pregnancy loss/stillbirth, and reoccurring pregnancies.
VIDEO Parents of stillborn babies look to Dr. Harvey Kliman for answers
July 27, 2022 - Lohud.com
Dr. Harvey Kliman at Yale University School of Medicine is the doctor couples seek after having a stillbirth, based on his research on placentas.
ARTICLE Family Shares Hope with Others After Infant Loss
May 23, 2022
Brian and Kelly Friedrich were ready to be parents. Despite the COVID pandemic impacting some of their plans, the Appleton couple was looking forward to welcoming a baby boy in April 2021. After experiencing what she describes as an easy, normal pregnancy, as Kelly was nearing 36 weeks, she noticed she had not felt the baby kick in some time.
ARTICLE Mount Sinai Collaborates With PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy to Launch Nation’s First Rainbow Clinic Dedicated to Reducing Stillbirths
March 22, 2022
Patients will have access to monitoring and testing services that are typically not available through other prenatal programs, such as estimated placental volume (EPV) monitoring, which can help guide the course of treatment and care.
PODCAST EVERYBODY’S GOT ONE – HARVEY KLIMAN, MD, PHD
August 20, 2021
RadioLab interviews Dr. Harvey Kliman, MD, PhD to talk about the placenta, “perhaps the most essential piece in the survival of our kind.”
PODCAST SHATTERED CONCEPTION with Dr. Ivy Margulies and Dr. Harvey Kliman, MD, PHD
March 23, 2020
Episode 39 of Shattered Conception with Dr. Harvey Kliman M.D., Ph.D., Research Scientist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the Reproductive and Placental Research Unit there with a special interest in infertility, pregnancy complications, pregnancy loss(es) and stillbirth.
PODCAST THE PLACENTA AND WHAT IT TELLS US – HARVEY KLIMAN, MD, PHD
February 1, 2018
Star Legacy Foundation interviews Dr. Harvey Kliman, MD, PhD for their podcast “Stillbirth Matters.” Listen as Chris Duffy visits with him about his research of the placenta and pregnancy outcomes.
ARTICLE Childbirth: Technique Measures Placenta’s Volume
August 3, 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.
ARTICLE: Equation to ‘spot small placenta’
August 9, 2009
A measurement to spot small placentas could act as an early warning system and potentially stop babies dying in the womb, a study suggests.
ARTICLE: Yale Scientists Develop ‘Gas Gauge’ to Prevent Pregnancy Loss
August 2, 2009
To combat the many fetal deaths that occur annually because the placenta is too small, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a method to measure the volume of the placenta, which provides nourishment to the fetus.
ARTICLE: New Ways to Size Up Placentas
August 14, 2009
Thousands of pregnancies are lost each year because the placenta is simply too small and the fetus runs out of food and oxygen. Now, researchers have developed a method to gauge placental volume.
ARTICLE: Mobile App Collecting Placenta Health Data
October 27, 2015
A new iPhone app allows women to report on the health of their placentas as their pregnancies develop, in a research study of placenta health to help reduce fetal death.
ARTICLE: Yale launches ResearchKit app to study and prevent pregnancy loss
November 5, 2015
Yale School of Medicine has launched a second ResearchKit study, and the new one aims to decrease the chance of pregnancy loss resulting from an undersized placenta. According to Yale, fetal death affects 30,000 women in the US annually.
ARTICLE: Equation to spot small placenta
August 11, 2009
Yale University researchers say they have developed an equation to work out the volume of the placenta with a high degree of accuracy. They hope their measurement could spot problems with the organ, which nourishes the growing fetus.
ARTICLE: Spotting placentas may prevent babies from dying in womb
August 10, 2009
It may soon be possible to stop babies dying in the womb, thanks to a measurement to spot small placentas that can act as an early warning system.