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Tag: kidney disease

**FILE** After a widely used test proved to overestimate Black people’s kidney health, the U.S. organ transplant network has now ordered hospitals and care facilities to use race-neutral tests when adding new patients to the kidney transplant waiting list. (Courtesy of baltimore.gov)
Posted inHealth, Stacy M. Brown

Racial Bias Uncovered in Kidney Transplantation System: Thousands of Black Patients Prioritized After Years of Waiting

by Stacy M. BrownApril 7, 2024April 8, 2024

A race-neutral test has been implemented to ensure equitable healthcare access for all individuals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and has led to adjustments for more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates, resulting in more than 2,800 successful transplants.

Maurice Fitzgerald has worked as a freelance photographer for The Washington Informer. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inCommunity, Health

Noted Local Photographer Seeks Kidney

by James Wright Jr.February 22, 2023February 24, 2023
Exercise is key to longer lives. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inHealth, Health Supplements, Supplements

Children, the Link Between Diabetes and Kidney Disease

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 10, 2021December 21, 2021
African Americans constitute more than 35 percent of all patients in the U.S. receiving dialysis for kidney failure. (Courtesy of Baltimore.gov)
Posted inHealth, Health Supplements, Supplements

Care of Kidneys Essential to Overall Wellness

by Dr. Shantella Y. ShermanMarch 10, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inHealth Supplements

March 2021 Health, Wellness and Nutrition

by WI WebstaffMarch 10, 2021December 21, 2021
African Americans constitute more than 35 percent of all patients in the U.S. receiving dialysis for kidney failure. (Courtesy of Baltimore.gov)
Posted inHealth

African Americans Face Higher Risk of Kidney Disease, Report Says

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 21, 2018October 31, 2020
Posted inHealth

D.C. ‘Ground Zero’ for Kidney Disease

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 9, 2017October 31, 2020
Kidney donors, kidney recipients and advocates ended the 4th annual Kidney Patient Summit with a group photo in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building of the Capitol in Northwest on Tuesday, March 7. (Travis Riddick/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity, Health

Kidney Foundation Urges Congress to Support Bill

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff WriterMarch 8, 2017October 30, 2020
Staff and faculty from the GW Hospital Transplant Institute provided kidney health education and blood pressure screening at the NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo, in partnership with the GW/Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center.
Posted inHealth

GW/Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center, GW Hospital Transplant Institute Aims to Educate about Kidney Disease

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 8, 2017October 30, 2020
Posted inHealth

Be Kind To Your Kidneys

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 8, 2017October 30, 2020

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