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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Girl, 8, first UK kidney transplant patient not to need life-long drugs in breakthrough treatment at London hospital

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

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 after pioneering treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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