Stories by Hannah Lust

Hannah Lust, MD, is a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

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OpinionJune 20, 2021

Some Medical Examiners Say Sickle Cell Trait Causes Sudden Death—They’re Wrong

The genetic factor that contributed most to the deaths of 47 Black men in police custody was the color of their skin, not the contents of their red blood cells

A. Kyle Mack, Rachel S. Bercovitz, Hannah Lust