Racial Bias in Kidney Transplant Waiting List.

Anthony Randall, an African American man awaiting a kidney transplant, has filed a lawsuit alleging that an algorithm used to determine priority for organs is biased against Black people. Randall is seeking millions of dollars in damages and a better position on the kidney transplant waiting list. He also wants to represent a class of 27,500 Black U.S. patients who he argues have been similarly disadvantaged. Both UNOS and Cedars-Sinai have dropped the use of the part of the formula Randall cites in his lawsuit. The lawsuit is the latest effort to challenge the policies and functioning of the nation’s troubled organ transplant system in recent years.