Waiting for a heart transplant, some children at disadvantage, study says - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Waiting for a heart transplant, some children at disadvantage, study says  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

What started out as an attempt to create a more-fair priority list for heart transplants in children has put a small group of patients at a new disadvantage, ...



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