Livers go to sickest, access for blacks improves

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 11/25/2008 - 15:05

CHICAGO (AP) -- 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....

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