Lauren’s Hope finds a niche for fashionable alert tags

Tara Cohen of Kansas City, North, credits a pendant around her neck with saving her life a year ago.

No, the pendant didn’t stop a bullet. But it did stop an emergency room doctor from unknowingly administering a life-threatening, possibly fatal, drug to Cohen.

Ethan Dillon,  a pre-med student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was interviewed for this story. Read the full story on the Kansas City Star’s website.


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