The U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients' kidneys appear healthier than they really were. Jazmin Evans, a student at Temple University, meets with a ...
Dennis Moledina encountered a common problem during his training in nephrology, the specialty dedicated to kidney health.
Although Pavlakis said that the belief that Black people's kidneys functioned differently than other ethnic groups’ kidneys was widespread, several advocates described the inclusion of racial bias ...
A race-specific algorithm designed to assess kidney function for individuals awaiting transplants jeopardized critical treatment for some Black Americans. An exclusive report by the Associated Press ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unprecedented effort to reverse the effects of a racially biased medical test that blocked or delayed Black people from getting kidney transplants seems to be working. Researchers ...
A kidney transplant can improve your quality of life with C3G/IC-MPGN, but it isn’t a cure. Find out what you can do to get the best outcome.
Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased ...
Sanskruti Lakhotia from RMIT's Sir Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility holds a bottle of the nanoparticle formula being used to develop Nexsen's kidney diagnostic tests. A simple blood test could ...
Research has shown that a kidney transplant improves survival rates and quality of life for the hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage renal disease compared to remaining on dialysis.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — ...