The dad of a four-year-old with a terminal condition has begged Scots health chiefs to offer a radical foreign treatment which can help his son.
Jamie Tierney Jr was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) last March and his family are now fundraising to send him to stem cell clinics in the US and South America to potentially extend his life and hold back his symptoms.
The muscle-wasting disease is found mainly in boys, affecting approximately one in 5000 births where all muscles in the body, including the lungs, heart and brain, are impacted. The family, from Dunfermline, were told that James would deteriorate in front of their eyes, with the average life expectancy in the mid-20s.
