25-05-2017 19:03 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Charlie Gard doctors can stop providing life support, court rules

Charlie Gard, who has a rare genetic condition, can only breathe through a ventilator.A couple who want to stop doctors taking their baby son off life support so they can take him to the US for treatment could take their case to the supreme court.Appeal court judges ruled on Thursday that doctors could stop providing treatment nine-month-old Charlie Gard, who is being kept on a ventilator at Great Ormond Street hospital in London.
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