Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms of the race-based equation for those who were still ...

By Nancy Lapid March 9 (Reuters) - Black patients with failing kidneys are receiving more transplants and spending less time on transplant waiting lists, after decades in which race-based medical ...

This is Part 6 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. NEW YORK — One Brooklyn Health, a safety net hospital ...

New U.S. policies are improving kidney transplant rates and reducing wait times for Black patients. Race-neutral formulas for ...

A new national study evaluating a landmark U.S. transplant policy change finds that efforts to correct the harms of race-based kidney function equations are associated with increased kidney ...

Thirteen health systems in Greater Philadelphia are working as a coalition to reevaluate what role race has played in tools and guidelines that doctors and nurses use to diagnose and treat patients.

Roche Holdings AG received CE-mark for the Kidney Klinrisk algorithm, an AI-based tool developed in collaboration with Klinrisk Inc. to stratify risk and assess the progressive decline in kidney ...

A machine-learning algorithm can use demographic, symptomatic, and clinical data to accurately predict the health-related quality of life (QoL) of patients with kidney stones, new research shows.