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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ella Pickover

Girl, 8, first in UK to get kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs

PA Wire

An eight-year-old has been spared from taking life-long drugs to stop her body rejecting her kidney transplant thanks to a UK-first treatment.

Aditi Shankar’s immune system was “reprogrammed” after a stem cell transplant and as a result her body accepted a donor kidney as its own, clinicians have told the PA news agency.

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