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Boy, 5, with leukaemia is cancer-free after family fundraise £500,000 for life-saving treatment

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The parents of a five-year-old boy who won the nation’s heart in his battle against a rare cancer have revealed their joy after being told his disease has gone. Oscar Saxelby-Lee, from Worcester, was given a ‘life or death’ three-month race to find a stem-cell match after his aggressive form of leukaemia worsened. More than … Read more

Baby boy has a heart transplant from a COW in a six-hour operation to save his life

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A baby boy has been fitted with a heart valve taken from a cow in a mammoth six-hour operation to save his life. Ten-month-old Bradley Harrison was born with a complex set of five heart defects which restrict blood flow through his body.  Born with a deformed pulmonary valve, he underwent grueling surgery at just … Read more

Florida boy, 4, is one of just 60 people with mysterious organ failing disease

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Grayson Heinle, from Jensen Beach, Florida, was born happy and healthy, and was hitting all his developmental milestones on time for the first several years of his life. But things suddenly took a turn for the worse when, earlier this year, he fell over on the couch and went to sleep, and his mother couldn’t … Read more

Boy whose rare condition leaves him blistered after minutes in the sun gets to play outside

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Brody Osga has watched the sun longingly for all four years of his young life.  But Brody’s rare condition makes him so sensitive to the sun that even a short drive in a windowed car can leave the toddler covered in painful blisters.  He was born premature, weighing only a little over two pounds and … Read more

Boy, nine months, is fighting a rare form of testicular cancer

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A nine-month-old boy is fighting a rare form of testicular cancer after his parents found a lump in his scrotum. Freddie Burgess-Shardlow has an ectomesenchymoma, a rare and fast-growing tumour of the nervous system or soft tissue. Emma Burgess, 36, said she and partner Katie Woodward, 34, first found a lump in their son’s testicles … Read more

Five-month-old boy dies days after hopes of a life-saving liver transplant fell through

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A five-month-old baby boy has died after his parents put out a plea for a life-saving partial liver transplant from a living donor. Marcus Albers was born in October 2018 with an extremely rare genetic disease that changes the way cells in the body communicate and attacks the liver, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Doctors … Read more

Boy, 14, died for an hour after drowning and then came back to life

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John Smith was playing on the frozen Lake Sainte Louise in St Charles, Missouri, with two friends in January 2015. Suddenly, the ice cracked beneath them and the three boys plunged deep into the sub-zero water. John’s two friends managed to escape, but the then-14-year-old sank to the bottom and was underwater for 15 minutes. … Read more

Boy, nine, left with a gaping hole in his leg after ‘poisonous spider caused his flesh to decay’

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A boy has been left with a gaping hole in his leg after being bitten by a poisonous spider, his mother claims. Bobby Barnett, nine, was taken to his GP and A&E, where it was believed he had simply been bitten by a tiny insect called a gnat. He was sent home with antibiotics, but … Read more

Woman who thought she had food poisoning gives birth to a baby boy in her bathroom 

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Woman who had no idea she was pregnant and thought she had food poisoning gives birth to a baby boy in her bathroom Patricia Crawford of New Jersey gave birth to a healthy baby boy in her bathroom on March 28  She had had an upset stomach all night, but assumed it was just food … Read more