Judge to decide if baby Charlie can receive pioneering treatment in the US
A High Court judge will decide if a baby with a rare life-threatening condition can receive treatment in the US – days after his parents raised more than £1.2m to save him. Doctors want to turn off eight-month-old Charlie Gard’s life support so he can die with dignity following his diagnosis with mitochondrial depletion syndrome at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). His parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard, of Bedfont, west London, are battling to take him to the…