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New Montefiore Einstein Study to Modernize Asthma Medication Process  Kids Can More Easily Access Medications at School  Bronx Voice  October 31, 2025   BRONX NEWS - A new Montefiore study aims to modernize child the asthma medication process by helping students access asthma meds in school. A newly awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant will enhance collaboration between primary care providers, patients, their caregivers, and New York City schools.  Building on a five-year research project that increased primary care providers’ use of national asthma management guidelines, Marina Reznik, M.D., M.S., vice chair, Clinical and Community-Based Research, Children's Hospital at Montefiore and professor, Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is launching a new study to more seamlessly link clinicians, caregivers, and schools so children can receive guideline-based asthma care while they are at school.   Currently, for children ...

Stabbed to Death on Westchester Square

Police are investigating the murder of a man inside his Westchester Square apartment building.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

November 23, 2022 


BRONX - A Bronx man was found stabbed to death inside his Westchester Square apartment building. 


At around 2:41 am on November 23, police were called to 2511 Westchester Avenue. In the sixth floor stairwell area police found 23-year-old Rodney Truss unconscious and unresponsive. He suffered a stab wound to his right leg. 


Responding EMS pronounced Truss dead at the scene.



Police have released few details and no word on any descriptions of suspects. 


Developing….


Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.

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