A race-based test for kidney function is finally changing. What about the rest of medicine?
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OCTOBER 17, 2024
Jazmin Evans was waiting on dialysis for four years before finally, on the Fourth of July last year, she received a kidney transplant. “Now I say the fireworks are for me,” said Evans, who was diagnosed with kidney disease when she was 17. She would have been waiting even longer had it not been for a shift, in 2021, in the way that physicians calculate kidney function for Black patients like her.
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