This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Dennis Moledina encountered a common problem ...

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 ...

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 new blood test can identify which individuals of African ancestry carrying high-risk APOL1 gene variants are most likely to develop kidney failure, years before clinical disease becomes apparent.

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 ...

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 lab report, two tiny ...

Chronic kidney disease progresses silently; affordable ₹300 tests enable early detection, preventing complications, reducing dialysis costs, and improving long-term health outcomes.

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 ...

After collecting an FDA clearance last year for its smartphone-based home kidney test, Healthy.io is letting it be known that it has the cash to help back it up. The company disclosed a previously ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been ...