{"id":430144,"date":"2026-02-17T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430144\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:04:07","slug":"alder-hey-pioneers-treatment-to-make-boy-taller-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430144\/","title":{"rendered":"Alder Hey pioneers treatment to make boy taller &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1BcmdFb1RjT2ZLZnBNek1vQm5oUjZyaXd6YjJobHh5UGpfNlNSQXV5eDdBNUdoZVNMYUhiLVk1VXJHZFEzVjNSQktha29PR3VXOVRxd2hyai1pZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alder Hey pioneers treatment to make boy taller<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE10SGVNQVZGbXNjWVZNYkQ4MVhaUVFKQUhucElLcmlGNEk4VHl1eHhwc2p1c0wwcDFWbWNZanlXUVlhQ0ExQU84d2I4cmVHOW9LaHlMS2lkQ0QzRGNi?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boy first in UK to have surgery to make him taller<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxPbDZtYlR4YS1MV1oyOU5MSW13UGpfYjdZR1RoVnFrYjF3LUc5Rm9hNlRRUHI1cVVuT1dMYWs4MXNpNDFZTmNac2EzaWFfUzg4WmRJX25EbDV4b0U5SmZXWjdseFFOaUxjWkxpTENqWW9GcElDM1VONm1reTJjcXdJdDNFVDE4QXJFUC1MNE9OQ2k?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boy, nine, undergoes UK-first leg-lengthening surgery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxOckw4bUEyN204ano0bGdoSW1YVGFNOVQ0YUNjX3NrNGxRcXdhaGpBM1kxaUxRTHdOM2FHTDVZYk4zZXA3emFDOWZvSU5ZWU1vRi04Rm1iOTh3c0RCLW4wYU1tNG9INkZja0ZjdzB6MDR0b0FZUF9FejNSQkxKRk96YUdHb2NyR2hmdTFId05pdGdpNmR1X2RhQm9xTXlEU3l6NUNUamV3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boy\u2019s leg lengthened by magnets: \u2018I can tower over my friends now\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxQSThKYlZUcVR0NWl3VTJmUV9KbVZYcDY4TWs0VzdKOEZ0MW1qbTc2STB6aFFWVXBuTS1TYVoyekZHQVlaLXJtQlpJSERuRVRWekJGTV96WV95SWExNnNJV3RFYUZvOWUxOGNsVFphSU1QcE9SMUpJbHZod1ptelVaOHRtWkk3M2ExNUE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lad, 9, becomes first child in the UK to have his leg made longer using pioneering surgery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alder Hey pioneers treatment to make boy taller&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCBoy first in UK to have surgery to make him taller&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCBoy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-430144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}