Girl receives UK’s first kidney transplant without need for lifelong drugs

Aditi Shankar, eight, has pioneering treatment resulting in her body accepting donor kidney as its own

An eight-year-old girl has been spared from taking lifelong 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, resulting in her body accepting a donor kidney as its own, clinicians said.