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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The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. Infections are rare but nearly always fatal. -
The city is updating the nine-mile thoroughfare top-to-bottom, part of a multi-year effort to make the city’s major roads safer using $46 million in pandemic relief funds -
The helicopter was carrying workers who were doing maintenance work on power lines, said Cpl. Dallas Thompson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. No other injuries were reported. -
Approximately half of the employees who lost their jobs at the Des Peres hospital were able to find work at other St. Luke’s locations, a spokeswoman said in an email. -
Around two dozen people from local health organizations aired concerns Wednesday at a roundtable in downtown St. Louis convened by U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell. -
“I think that we should celebrate this injunction, but we should continue to be vigilant,” said Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Chief Medical Officer Margaret Baum. -
The suit, filed in Cole County Circuit Court, rests on claims Planned Parenthood has made about the drug mifepristone. -
The average judgment was for around $2,000, said lead author Mary Shannon. Some judgments were for even smaller amounts. -
Using childhood addresses, researchers found that those who lived in close proximity to the contaminated waterway as children were more likely to report they had been diagnosed with the disease. -
Long COVID patients who visit a Wash U clinic say they’re being directed to another center after the clinic’s medical director has moved on. -
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Medical Director Margaret Baum said Tuesday the clinic had opened its books for patients to make abortion appointments starting next week. -
The final version of the bill contains restrictions on medical provider taxes that alarmed Missouri hospitals.
