David joined the WCCO team in April 2020, previously working at CBS 58 in Milwaukee. Prior to that, he worked in Las Vegas. While there, David covered several stories in the national spotlight, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kristal Higgins just wants to be healthy, become a nurse and travel to Greece. But she has kidney failure and has been on a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — UofL Health says the nationwide test that was used to see how well your kidney is functioning has been negatively impacting African American patients for years. According to UofL ...

video: A commonly used blood test which measures how well a person’s kidneys are working may not pick up kidney disease for people in Africa. This means that many people could miss early diagnosis and ...

MISSION HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A medical test for kidney function that adjusts its results for race is coming under increased scrutiny. Experts are saying the results for African-American ...

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 ...

An international research collaboration led by Queen Mary University of London and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa has published the most comprehensive genomic investigation of ...

A mismatch between two common tests for kidney function may indicate a higher risk for kidney failure, heart disease, and death, a new study shows. Health care providers for decades have measured ...

Race—a social construct—is highly unreliable as a predictor of biologic variation across populations. Mounting evidence showing that race is not biology has called into question the use of many ...