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Black people are much less likely than white people to be referred for kidney transplants, a new Harvard Medical School (HMS) study has found...
...study, one of many recent efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
...study also found that many doctors failed to inform black patients about the possibility of receiving a kidney from a family member instead of going on a wait-list...
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) officials announced last week that they will step up enforcement of existing rules against racial bias in kidney transplants...
...about a decade, studies have found racial discrepancies in the treatment of kidney failure, heart disease, arthritis, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses...