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A Death Sentence: Native Americans Shut Out of the Nation’s Liver Transplant System
Despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Americans are far less likely to make the transplant list than White people
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How We Investigated Racial Disparities in Liver Transplants
We found Native Americans were listed for a transplant significantly less often than other racial groups compared with their number of deaths from liver disease
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In Emails, Contractor Tries To Orchestrate New Federal Transplant Policy
Emails show UNOS capitalized on a lung lawsuit to lay the groundwork for a sweeping liver policy change.
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A Crucial Link in the Nation’s Organ Donation Process Is Failing
Regulators allowed many organ procurement nonprofits to falter—and now states are battling over scarce organs
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HHS Plans Breakup of Organ Transplant Monopoly
The move would disrupt the influence of contractor UNOS, whose control of organ sharing has been nearly all-encompassing for decades
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How a Group of Health Executives Transformed the Liver Transplant System
Hospitals in New York and California engineered a policy shift that let them source livers from hundreds of miles away
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Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste
Life-saving liver transplants have plummeted in some Southern and Midwestern states with higher death rates from liver disease, while New York and California have made big gains
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How We Investigated UNOS’s Liver Allocation Policy
We found that new requirements led to plummeting transplants in some poorer states while New York and California saw big gains