Elimination of national kidney allocation policy improves minority access to transplants
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that since the elimination of the kidney allocation priority for matching for HLA-B on May 7, 2003, access to kidney transplantation for minorities has been improved. Improvement is a result of a policy that reduced the requirements for tissue matching.