Sarah Fentem

St. Louis

Reporter at St.Louis Public Radio NPR

Perpetually indignant flyover resident. Health reporter @stlpublicradio

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Missouri ban on transgender care for minors intact after SCOTUS decision

1 week ago | kbia.org | Sarah Fentem |Noah Taborda

Missouri's ban on providing cross-sex hormones and gender-affirming surgeries to transgender people under age 18 can remain in effect after the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled states are allowed to prohibit such care to minors. The 6-3 ruling upheld a similar law in Tennessee that prohibits such care for minors.
Missouri Supreme Court puts state abortion ban back into effect for now

1 month ago | nprillinois.org | Rachel Lippmann |Sarah Fentem

The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a judge in Kansas City to lift two rulings that halted enforcement of the state's near-total ban on abortion. After voters in November approved Amendment 3 to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, the Planned Parenthood affiliates serving the state sued. In December, Judge Jerri Zhang of the 16th Circuit ruled that the ban violated the constitution.
Waiver allows Missouri pharmacists to give meds without prescriptions after storms

1 month ago | columbiamissourian.com | Sarah Fentem

By Sarah Fentem, St. Louis Public Radio The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is allowing pharmacists to dispense a one-month supply of controlled substances without a written prescription to those affected by recent devastating tornado and storms. Thursday's waiver allows pharmacists to use their judgment to fill the prescriptions for morphine, oxycontin and other medications that are typically more tightly controlled by the government.
Waiver allows Missouri pharmacists to give meds without prescriptions after storms

1 month ago | kbia.org | Sarah Fentem

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is allowing pharmacists to dispense a one-month supply of controlled substances without a written prescription to those affected by recent devastating tornado and storms. Thursday's waiver allows pharmacists to use their judgment to fill the prescriptions for morphine, oxycontin and other medications that are typically more tightly controlled by the government.
St. Louis tornado sirens didn't go off. Mayor says it was the result of 'human failure'

1 month ago | kcur.org | Sarah Fentem |Will Bauer

Tornado sirens did not sound in St. Louis during the extreme weather last week because of a “human failure,” Mayor Cara Spencer said Monday. Since a devastating EF3 tornado ripped through the area on Friday that killed five people, an outpouring of residents have said they did not hear a warning that could have saved lives. “A button wasn't pushed, and the sirens were not deployed,” the mayor said.
5 dead after storms and likely tornado rip through St. Louis

1 month ago | kcur.org | Kate Grumke |Chad Davis |Lara Hamdan |Sarah Fentem

Five people are confirmed dead and others are injured after severe thunderstorms and a tornado hit the St. Louis region on Friday. The city issued a curfew for police Districts 5 and 6, which make up neighborhoods north of Forest Park, until 6 a.m. Saturday. The National Weather Service said radar confirmed a tornado around 2:30 p.m. The storm caused damage in Clayton, University City, the Central West End and neighborhoods in north St. Louis.
Pope Leo XIV's path to the Vatican made a stop in St. Louis

1 month ago | kcur.org | Sarah Fentem |Will Bauer

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV’s path to the Vatican made an early stop in St. Louis. The Roman Catholic Church's cardinals on Thursday elected the 69-year-old native Chicagoan after a two-day conclave in Vatican City. Born Robert Prevost, the first American pope lived in St. Louis in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. In 1977, he entered a novitiate of the Order of St. Augustine at a parish near the present-day St. Louis University medical campus.
Measles case reported in southern Missouri patient

2 months ago | ksmu.org | Sarah Fentem

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced today a case of measles has been identified in a child visiting Taney County, in the south central part of the state. The case is the first reported of the infectious virus this year in Missouri. The announcement comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 800 cases of the virus across 10 outbreaks in 25 other states.
Federal government slashes Missouri vaccine funds, as child immunization rates fall

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Sarah Fentem

has cut money earmarked to encourage vaccinations among Missourians as part of its mission to slash spending. The cuts come as vaccination rates among Missouri children have gone down and as vaccine-preventable measles has gone up nationally. The cuts, announced in March, were to grants to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Planned Parenthood challenges Missouri's new abortion medication restrictions

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Sarah Fentem

Share are asking a judge to pause a law that requires the organization to submit to the state a plan that outlines what to do in case of complications before the clinics offer patients medication-assisted abortions. The Department of Health and Senior Services in March published last-minute rules for what those plans must include, the suit contends.