Peggy O'Farrell
Reporter
Peggy O'Farrell covers health care and health issues, including jobs, regulatory issues, emerging trends and public health issues.
She graduated from Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Latest from Peggy O'Farrell
Kettering Health taps 1st female president
Terri Day, a longtime executive in the faith-based Adventist heath care system in California and Ohio, was named Monday as the first woman president to lead the four-decade old Kettering Health Network. Day’s ascension to one of the top health care posts in the Miami Valley puts women at or ...
Kettering Health Network names 1st woman president
Terri Day was named today as the first woman president of Kettering Health Network, which operates eight hospitals in the Dayton and Butler County region. Day, a longtime executive with the Adventist faith-based heathcare system, will be responsible for providing operational oversight to align all hospitals and facilities in the ...
Big decisions coming with health care reforms
The nation’s controversial health-care reform law will likely move forward after the re-election of President Barack Obama. Key questions remain, though, even after Tuesday’s election gave the apparent go-ahead to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Pockets of state-level resistance may delay or stall the law in some parts ...
Ohio faces filling physician shortages in future
By 2020, Ohio is expected to be short by just over 5,000 primary care physicians to take care of basic health needs. Nurse practitioners could help fill that shortage. But a number of barriers — a lack of nursing instructors at all levels, billing issues, regulatory limitations on practices and ...
Ohio looking at custom-mix prescription pharmacies
Ohio is cracking down on pharmacies that custom-mix individualized prescriptions in the wake of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Statewide, 17 pharmacies are now specially designated as compounding sites, said Jesse L. Wimberly, spokesman and pharmacy inspector for the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. ...
More ticks could mean more Lyme disease
More blacklegged or “deer” ticks in Ohio’s forests could lead to more Lyme disease and other infections in humans, state health officials warn.The state has seen a “dramatic increase” in the ticks’ numbers in the last few years, said Richard Gary, state entomologist for the Ohio Department of Health.The ticks ...
Genetic testing latest breast cancer hope
Joan Fahringer and Josie Shuler both have breast cancer. But though have the same diagnosis, they have very different diseases that require very different treatments. For Fahringer and Shuler and countless other women, research is the key to finding the right weapon in their battle against breast cancer. And in ...
Tainted steroid sickens local man
A 52-year-old Warren County man is the ninth in Ohio sickened in an outbreak of a rare brain infection that has resulted in the deaths of 19 people nationwide.The Ohio Department of Health released no additional details Wednesday about the man as the multistate fungal meningitis cases continue to grow. ...
Cold spells end to West Nile season
The mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus are mostly settling in for winter hibernation. Culex mosquitoes, unlike some other mosquito species, do not die off once the weather turns cold, said Richard Gary, public health entomologist with the Ohio Department of Health. They hibernate and re-emerge in spring and summer. ...
3 Ohioans confirmed with rare meningitis linked to tainted steroid injections
Two more Ohioans have become the latest fungal meningitis victims after receiving tainted steroid injections produced at a Massachusetts pharmacy.The Ohio Department of Health Thursday reported two women, a 39-year-old from Morrow County and a 40-year-old from Crawford County, developed the rare brain infection after receiving the steroid injections. State ...
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