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 downloadable from Apple for iPad and iPhone users.

It was developed by a team of doctors and genetic specialists at Roche.

Patients are encouraged to use the app before they visit their ob/gyn care providers so that they feel more educated about what questions to ask.

 to a review. Please let us know if you or your patients are making use of such apps and whether you believe such apps are helping to improve patient knowledge. Email Senior Editor Angie DeRosa at 

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Pregnant patients learning to navigate the world of genetic health now have access to an app that helps to explain chromosomes, conditions that prenatal screening can identify, and available testing options such as non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). 

Roche prenatal app

She speaks here about how different disciplines worked together to achieve optimal patient care. The hospital system mobilized its resources in many ways, including establishing a Virtual COVID Clinic. You can read more about that 

It was shortly after the hospital diagnosed its first COVID-19 positive patient that officials realized there would be a need for a virtual clinic to monitor the high-risk population. Medical staff were being challenged and taxed in other ways, including working with different disciplines throughout the hospital. 

For example, having to perform a C-section with an oncology fellow – something that would have been absurd to think about months before the pandemic – became routine as the doctors banded together to take care of patients. Columbia also formed an obstetrics intensive care unit during that period, which Dr. Aziz discusses. 

She also discusses how leadership’s response and overall organization rose to meet the demands, and the expanded role of telehealth.

 in the midst of the crisis, check out “Dispatches During COVID-19.

These also are additional resources shared by Dr. Aziz for more reading:

Universal screening for COVID-19 on labor and delivery

Primed for the Pandemic: Implementation of Telehealth Outpatient Monitoring for Women with Mild COVID-19

Adaptation of prenatal care and ultrasound

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Senior Editor Angie DeRosa interviews Aleha Aziz, MD, an ob/gyn at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center in New York. Dr. Aziz was one of many fellows involved with caring for patients during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City earlier this year. 

Aleha Aziz, MD, MPH: The fellow on the frontlines of COVID-19

In this clip, Dr. Aziz speaks about what kept her inspired during the pandemic and how different disciplines worked together to achieve optimal patient care. The hospital system mobilized its resources in many ways, including establishing a 

Watch the full interview with Aleha Aziz, MD, here.

“We came together in a way that would’ve been unimaginable prior to the pandemic,” Dr. Aziz says. 

Heads down, masks up: Inspiration during a global pandemic

This interview is based on findings from “

Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure with Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Stillbirth in the U.S.: A Systematic Review

The review contributes the largest number of recent studies (2007-2019) focusing solely on US populations and is the first, to the authors’ knowledge, to combine the increasingly common exposures of air pollutants and heat associated with a series of adverse obstetrical outcomes – preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth. 

It is a first-of-its-kind study focused on the US.

Two of the study’s authors, Drs. Bruce Bekkar and Nate DeNicola, participate in this panel, as well as two maternal-fetal medicine specialists—Drs. Santosh Pandipati and David Abel—who offer the practitioner’s perspective of why this matters and what practicing ob/gyns can do now to address it in their practice.

Dr. Bekkar is a board member of the Climate Action Change Campaign. He has shared original research on the risks to pregnancy in the US at national meetings of the American Public Health Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Dr. DeNicola leads the environmental health efforts within ACOG.

As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, Dr. Pandipati has issued a call to action on this for healthcare providers; and Dr. Abel also has and has an upcoming article, “

Climate Change and Women’s Health: What Practicing OB/GYNs need to know

Senior Editor Angie DeRosa sat down Drs. Bekkar, DeNicola, Pandipati and Abel to discuss findings from a recent study on the association with air pollution and heat exposure with adverse obstetrical outcomes, such as preterm birth and stillbirth. 

Author | Angie DeRosa

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Roche prenatal app

Aleha Aziz, MD, MPH: The fellow on the frontlines of COVID-19

Heads down, masks up: Inspiration during a global pandemic

Panel discussion: Impacts of climate change on women's health