SPOTLIGHT: Racial disparities in healthcare persist

The good news is that racial disparities in access to medical care are shrinking for many procedures, a new study finds. The bad news, according to research by a team from the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that blacks still do not have the same access to more complex -- and expensive -- procedures as whites. Three studies appearing in the Journal look at the issue. Story

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