HEALTHBEAT: Hardest-to-match patients get more transplants in first year of new kidney rules

In this photo provided by the University of Virginia Health System, taken Dec. 9, 2015, Marshall Jones, right, laughs with Dr. John Barcia in the Battle Building at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville, Va. A shake-up of the nation’s kidney transplant system is getting more organs to patients once thought nearly impossible to match, according to early tracking of the new rules.