Racial Discrimination in Organ Transplants Alleged in Lawsuit (1)

A Black man in California with over five years on the national wait list for a kidney transplant says the “race-based” formula used for decades to select kidney donor recipients was biased against untold thousands of African Americans.

Anthony Randall, a patient at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, says he and other Black patients on the kidney wait list have unfairly waited longer for organs because their kidney function scores were artificially inflated by 16 to 18%, based on the flawed assumption that Black people have greater muscle mass and naturally have more creatine, an amino acid that has been ...