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Livers go to sickest, access for blacks improves
Blacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide system that puts the sickest patients first, a new study found...It looks like we did," said Dr. Richard Freeman, a transplant surgeon...
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- News Source: The News & Observer | about 1 year agoA scoring system that rates people by how sick they are has eliminated racial disparities that plagued liver transplant waiting lists prior to 2002, researchers at Duke University have found. Prior to 2002, when the new rating system started at the...
- News Source: Arizona Republic | about 1 year agoBlacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide system that puts the sickest patients first, a new study found...It looks like we...
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