Sarah Fentem
Health ReporterSarah Fentem reports on sickness and health as part of St. Louis Public Radio’s news team. She previously spent five years reporting for different NPR stations in Indiana, immersing herself deep, deep into an insurance policy beat from which she may never fully recover.
A longtime NPR listener, she grew up hearing WQUB in Quincy, Illinois, which is now owned by STLPR. She lives in South St. Louis, and in her spare time likes to watch old sitcoms, meticulously clean and organize her home and go on outdoor adventures with her husband Elliot. They have a dog named Ginger.
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More than 90,000 people were potentially affected by a data breach of St. Louis University files. SLU and plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit have reached an agreement that pays for some damages and credit monitoring. -
According to the National Park Service, around 3,700 Black men — mostly enslaved — from Missouri served in the United States Colored Troops regiments during the Civil War. -
St. Louis-area listeners of KDHX on Saturday morning could hear K-LOVE’s signature Christian programming content. By later in the afternoon, 88.1 FM appeared to return to its typical programming. -
Rain is expected to fall over the St. Louis region through the weekend, bringing risks of wind, tornadoes, hail and floods. -
Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to overturn the Missouri health department’s newly published emergency rule governing complication plans for medication abortions. -
The provider announced Friday staff had begun offering some abortions, but the state had rejected a plan that would allow doctors to dispense abortion medications. -
According to the state Department of Health and Senior Services, Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital will lose its license next week if it doesn’t send the state a plan to correct its deficiencies and allow regulators to conduct a site inspection. -
The city’s health director said during a panel Friday she’s concerned falling vaccination rates and a lack of federal guidance could put the state’s community’s at risk. -
FDA officials say the lab in the Central West End will stay open after the Department of Government Efficiency said it was terminating the facility’s lease. -
The researchers say the device could keep farmers from having to cull their flocks when they detect the contagious virus, which has affected more than 5 million birds in Missouri since 2022. -
Avian flu has been found in 13 of Missouri's commercial poultry producers and egg farm flocks in the last month. Close to 400,000 birds in commercial flocks have been affected in the state. -
The group Coalition Life in 2023 sued the southern Illinois city to upend a measure prohibiting demonstrators and other groups from gathering 100 feet from medical facilities, including abortion providers.
