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Chat room helps Destiny-Rae, 5, find a new kidney

An online friendship between two mums led to a new kidney for five-year-old Destiny-Rae.
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And by sharing her story, she met "guardian angel" Liffy, who was willing to donate a kidney to a special organ-swap scheme.
Liffy is not a match for Destiny either - but her generosity resulted in Destiny receiving a kidney from another kind stranger who is.
 
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Pioneering gene therapy restores UK girl's hearing

Opal, 18 months, can now hear - even a whisper - after becoming the first person to try a new treatment.
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A UK girl born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment.
Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday - and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is starting to talk, saying words such as "Mama", "Dada" and "uh-oh".
Given as an infusion into the ear, the therapy replaces faulty DNA causing her type of inherited deafness.
Opal is part of a trial recruiting patients in the UK, US and Spain.
Doctors in other countries, including China, are also exploring very similar treatments for the Otof gene mutation Opal has.
Her parents, Jo and James, from Oxfordshire, say the results have been mind-blowing - but allowing Opal to be the first to test this treatment, made by Regeneron, was extremely tough.
 
Shout out to this outstanding, splendid young lad- & to his Mum (whose undergoing bowel cancer surgery):

Going to King's garden party, got stuck in traffic/ missed it, but got a mssg lifting their spirits asap. Royals did good here.

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Tony Hudgell: Royal palace offers to rearrange Kent boy's visit

Royal Family posts response after 'devastated' Kent boy misses a garden party due to traffic.
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