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UPDATE Kingsbridge Road Shooting Victim “Never had a Father or Mother and He Tried to Survive”

By DAVID GREENE
As a group of young men continued a vigil for a third day outside FM Candy and Grocery Corp, located at 131 West Kingsbridge Road in Fordham Manor, residents of NYCHA’s Bailey Houses, located on Heath Avenue also in Fordham Manor, remembered resident, Hasan Richburg, 26, who, as reported, was shot multiple times outside 131 West Kingsbridge Road on Thursday, Feb. 8 and later died of his injuries.

North Central Bronx Hospital Unveils New Employee Wellness Room

By ARIEL PACHECO
NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx (NCB) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 24 as the public hospital unveiled a brand-new, employee wellness room. Jeremy Segall, assistant vice president of human experience at NYC Health + Hospitals said of the occasion, “The opening of the workforce wellness room is a pivotal moment for permanence of well-being across our system, to have a workforce wellness room where people can come to take time to connect with their own concrete needs.”

Marta Gavora the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of Microbiology Retires After 54 Years

By AMY SACKS & SÍLE MOLONEY
When Marta Gavora immigrated to the United States from communist Czechoslovakia with her younger sister in 1969, she was just 23 years old and spoke no English. While helping to organize the Dermatological Symposium held in Bratislava in then-Czechoslovakia, in 1966, she came across a scientific paper presented by a Montefiore physician.

Health Check: Littles Hearts, Big Potential

By NEREYDA FRANCO
It’s February once again and with it, the focus returns to all matters of the heart. We’ll learn about heart health of kids, because little hearts grow up, and the health and habits of today’s young people pave the road for heart health, or heart disease, in adulthood.