{"id":88142,"date":"2026-04-23T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88142"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:34:39","slug":"six-year-old-girl-has-sight-restored-by-breakthrough-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/six-year-old-girl-has-sight-restored-by-breakthrough-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-year-old girl has sight restored by breakthrough therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21vtWQ.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=129&amp;y=47&amp;s=581&amp;d=401\" alt=\"Saffie\u2019s parents said her quality of life has improved and that she is now \u2018thriving\u2019 - Family handout\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A six-year-old girl has had her sight restored thanks to a life-changing eye gene therapy on the NHS.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/six-year-old-girl-has-sight-restored-by-breakthrough-therapy\/ar-AA21vzbr?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e9d923efce41f19cfb5ca0f786585c&amp;ei=42\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A six-year-old girl has had her sight restored thanks to a life-changing eye gene therapy on the NHS. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/eye.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88143,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88142\/revisions\/88143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}