Study Shows Increase in Black Patients' Transplant Rate

Study shows increase in Black patients' transplant rate

WASHINGTON — 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.

An effort to remedy harm from a race-based kidney test helps Black patients seeking transplants

Surgical instruments and supplies lay on a table during a kidney transplant surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C., June 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File) By Lauran NeegaardAP Medical Writer 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 reported March 9 that …

Ending Race-based Test Helps Black Kidney Patients

When Congress established it in 1984, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network was given a key mandate: set up a system to handle the growing demand for organ transplants that would efficiently match donors and recipients.  and prevent human organs from being bought and sold.  In turn, OPTN created a nonprofit organization, United Network for Organ Sharing — that has run the program since 1986.  But for decades doctors used a race-based…