Be Healthy: We Want to Answer Your Back to School Health Questions (By Talking to Experts)

Editor’s Note: Every week, Breaking Bronx features a health-related story, event or tidbit as part of an online expansion of our Be Healthy! column.

Summer is winding down and it’s time to start thinking about back-to-school. It’s a busy time for students and parents, who have coordinate after-school plans and help with homework. A new school year also means doctors’ visits, vaccines, health insurance paperwork and other medical concerns.

This is why the Norwood News is sitting down next week with Dr. David Listman, director of emergency pediatrics at St. Barnabas Hospital as well as doctors from Montefiore Medical Center. We want to ask questions straight from Bronx parents and our readers. So what do you need to know: the best way to prevent your child from getting a cold? What vaccines do students need? Let us know what you want to know by sending us an e-mail (norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org), dropping us a note in the comments section, posting on our Facebook page or Tweeting questions at us on Twitter (@norwoodnews).

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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.