Racial

    The result was exciting. Thirteen people with serious kidney disease given a new type of drug for three months had, on average, seen the amount of protein pathologically …

This is Part 3 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it’s so difficult to change them. There it was on James Cannon’s …

Wpatient If you have end-stage heart failure, the best treatment is to undergo a heart transplant. The basic steps are well known. First, patients are placed on a waiting list …

Nearly 40 years ago, U.S. policymakers sought to bring order to the growing practice of organ transplantation, convening experts from around the country to weigh in on how to get …