King's College London: A 'new' ageing population
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Channel: King's College London · 2014 · Education
Researchers at King's have called on politicians to review the cost of prescriptions for liver transplant recipients, who must take daily immunosuppressants to prevent organ rejection for the rest of their lives. For the first time a suite of personal narratives from an emerging 'new' ageing population have been gathered from the surviving members of the first cohort of paediatric liver transplant recipients, who received their transplant up to 30 years ago at Addenbrooke's or King's College Hospital. We interviewed Dr Karen Lowton, Shaun Woodward MP and liver transplant recipient, Alexandra Sullivan, about the research and its implications. Read the full story on the King's website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2014/January/Stories-of-a-new-ageing-population-gathered-for-the-first-time.aspx
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