For years, Black people have waited longer for kidney transplants because of their race. A new rule aims to fix that

Katherine Anderson's kidneys have been going downhill for years, increasingly unable to filter her body's waste products from her blood. She is often exhausted and has no appetite, losing 20 pounds in the last year alone from her slender, 5-foot-5 1/2 frame. On Jan. 27, she finally got good news: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital placed her on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. But two months later, the 59-year-old Norristown woman, who is Black, got a follow-up message that left her confused. It said that, in the past, doctors had estimated her kidney function with a formula that in...