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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 ...
State suspends license of pharmacy linked to meningitis outbreak
The Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a nationwide deadly meningitis outbreak has had their license suspended to distribute prescription drugs in Ohio.The decision comes as Ohio health officials said they have notified nearly every Ohioan who received the recalled steroid suspected in 12 deaths and 137 infections nationally.Kyle Parker, director of ...
Faith leaders take on childhood obesity
Dayton-area faith leaders pledged Tuesday to join a national initiative to fight childhood obesity. Faith United to End Childhood Obesity, a multi-denominational coalition organized by Save the Children’s Campaign for Healthy Kids, has joined with First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign to focus on better nutrition and more physical ...
Ohio seeks Medicaid changes with Obamacare
Medicaid is emerging as a major battleground on Obamacare as states run the numbers on what expanding Medicaid rolls will do to their fragile state budgets. Ohio is one of a growing number of states considering a novel approach. Gov. John Kasich’s administration, made up of Republicans, and thus no ...
Ohioan first state case in fungal meningitis shot recall
A 65-year-old man is Ohio’s first case of a rare form of fungal meningitis linked to epidural steroid injections to treat back pain. State health officials announced the case Saturday but have neither released the man’s name nor county of residence. The steroid in question, methylprednisolone acetate, was shipped to ...
Ohio patients of 4 pains clinics might be impacted by meningitis recall
Ohio health officials are working to track down patients from four private pain clinics who might received a recalled injectable steroid that has been linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak.The outbreak has sickened 47 and killed five in seven states. Though four pain clinics in Ohio received the medication, no ...
Thousands must find new doctors after dispute
An area private physicians group that serves about 100,000 patients in the Miami Valley announced this week it will no longer be part of health insurer Aetna’s physician network because of a dispute over reimbursement payments. PriMed Physicians, with sites in Greene, Montgomery and Warren counties, said its contract with ...
U.S. teen drinking and driving drops by more than half
The number of U.S. teens self-reporting drinking and driving dropped by more than half between 1991 and 2011, federal health officials said Tuesday. In 1991, 22.3 percent of teens in high school reported drinking and driving; last year, the number dropped to 10.3 percent, a decline of 54 percent. In ...
First West Nile related death reported in area
West Nile virus has been confirmed as a contributing factor in the death of an 84-year-old Clark County man. The Clark County Combined Health District said Monday that the county’s first West Nile virus-related fatality was reported by the Springfield Regional Medical Center, where the man had been hospitalized. It’s ...
Most new flu sufferers from Ohio
More than two-thirds of the people who contracted a new flu virus spread by swine at county fairs around the nation were from Ohio, federal health data show. A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 11 of 16 people hospitalized for H3N2v this ...
Health department to offer flu vaccinations
Montgomery County health officials are urging residents 6 months and older to get their seasonal flu vaccinations.The health department will offer flu vaccinations at its Public Health Clinic in the Reibold Building during the week.A separate flu shot clinic also has been scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. ...
Rx drug take-back day is Saturday
Consumers throughout the Miami Valley can dispose of their unwanted, unused or expired medications Saturday as part of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. consumers can drop off medications at police departments and other sites around the region. The event, sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration, ...
ARC Ohio opening medical center, pharmacy in Columbus
Dayton-based AIDS Resource Center Ohio will open a medical center and pharmacy serving people with HIV and AIDS in Columbus next week.The 7,100-square foot facility in a neighborhood north of downtown Columbus will focus on people not currently receiving any HIV/AIDS treatment or those not getting the best treatment for ...
Efforts curbing drug abuse
Ohio is curbing painkiller abuse through drug monitoring programs, but the methods need to be used more effectively to fight the state’s prescription drug abuse epidemic, researchers said Thursday.In 2007, when the problem was first widely identified in Ohio, state officials reported that more adults died of prescription drug abuse ...
WSU opens new medical clinic on campus
A new same-day medical care service opens today on the Wright State University campus in Fairborn. WrightCare, operated by Wright State Physicians, will see patients from noon to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday in the physician group’s new state-of-the-art building at 725 University Blvd. Wright State Physicians is a private ...
Health-care questions remain for business owners
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “is the biggest change we’re ever going to see in our lifetime,” the president of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Ohio said Friday.But many of the federal regulations that spell out just how that big change is going to unfold have not been ...
Girl's death remains mystery; West Nile ruled out
Sandra L. Johnson wants to know why her daughter, Jordan, died Sept. 1. The 15-year-old, a sophomore and volleyball player at Tri-County North High School in Lewisburg, died of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton. What she and health officials don’t ...
CDC: Worst of West Nile likely past
Though the worst of the West Nile virus epidemic is likely past, the United States is on track to have its deadliest year ever for the mosquito-borne illness, federal health officials warned Wednesday. New infections will continue through “at least November,” said Dr. Lyle Peterson, director of the Division of ...
Poverty rate in U.S., Ohio stabilizes; income falls
The poverty rate in Ohio and across the nation stabilized last year, although many Miami Valley families — from suburbanites to the poorest urban dwellers — continue to struggle, largely because of joblessness and a substantial decline in median incomes. The nation’s poverty rate last year dipped to 15 percent ...
Fear of brain damage sidelining young athletes
Tyler Layer doesn’t remember the hit that took him out of football for good last August or the two weeks that followed. The hit knocked him out for a minute or two and caused him to miss the season. When he suffered a second concussion after a fall at home ...
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