A Racially Biased Test That Prevented Thousands Of Black People From Receiving Kidney Transplants Is Finally Changing

A Racially Biased Test That Prevented Thousands Of Black People From Receiving Kidney Transplants Is Finally Changing

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Lewis Whyld – PA Images / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 4, 2024

A racially biased test that prevented thousands of Black people from receiving kidney transplants is finally changing.

For the past twenty years the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) clinical lab

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