Alva Smith received a letter with surprising news last fall: She was suddenly moving up on the kidney transplant waiting list. It wasn’t because of a change in her medical status. It was because the test used to evaluate prospective kidney transplant candidates began taking race out of the equation.
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A pig kidney is still functioning correctly more than six weeks after surgeons at NYU Langone transplanted the organ into the body of a brain-dead man. Doctors shared thoughts on the development.
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