Racial Bias May Impact Access to Heart Transplants

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Oct. 20, 2022 – A new study shows that life-saving heart procedures were performed on white adults twice as often as on Black adults, causing researchers to suspect racial bias among clinical decision-makers.

“The lives disabled or lost are simply too many,” Wendy C. Taddei-Peters, PhD, a study author, said in a news release from the National Institutes of Health. Read more in Web MD.

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