Older Women Lag Behind Men in Access to Kidney Transplants

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Wed, 01/07/2009 - 15:00

BALTIMORE (MedPage Today) -- Women 55 or younger who need a kidney transplant have as much access to an organ as do men, but then a gender disparity begins to emerge, researchers here found.

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