Sarah Fentem
Producer Sarah Fentem comes to Side Effects after covering health policy for the Indiana Public Broadcasting regional news collaborative.
Sarah is in charge of Side Effects' digital and social media presence. She also edits for web and contributes story ideas and radio reporting. Her favorite topics include health insurance availability, big pharma and the death industry.
As a native midwesterner, Sarah believes local audiences deserve high-quality comprehensive, in-depth news coverage and is proud to cover health care issues for a heartland audience.
In her free time, Sarah likes to run, organize her home while watching the Golden Girls and explore nature. She lives in south Indianapolis with her fiance, Elliot.
Favorite podcasts: What the Health? from Kaiser Health News, Planet Money and vintage Radiolab.
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NPR looks at what is causing Missouri to have one of the slowest rates of administering COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., from a lack of government transparency to a decentralized distribution system.
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A state judge's ruling on Monday will allow Missouri's only clinic that performs abortions to remain open for at least 10 more days. -
Brittany "Tru" Kellman sometimes starts her day two hours before Jamaa Birth Village opens at 10 a.m., stashing diapers and snacks for the dozens of… -
Every day, Amanda Moller scoops powdered formula out of a can and shakes it up with water from her kitchen sink in University City, Missouri, a suburb... -
An analysis released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides further links between syringe services programs and preventing... -
Indiana’s Attorney General Curtis Hill has joined 19 other states in a legal challenge against the Affordable Care Act. Experts say some parts of the... -
Indiana’s Attorney General Curtis Hill is one of 20 state officials lobbing a new attack at the Affordable Care Act. If successful, the lawsuit could... -
Indiana’s Medicaid program got an update on Feb. 2 when the federal government approved a new version of the Healthy Indiana Plan. The new changes... -
Epidemiologists traditionally have depended on what people say to discover how disease spreads. But in investigating Indiana's recent HIV outbreak, the... -
The Senate Health and Provider Services Committee on Wednesday threw its support behind a bill that would require Indiana physicians to check the state...
