The month of May is Huntington's Disease Awareness Month, in which a special effort is made to improve awareness about this devastating rare disease. This year, the Huntington's Disease Society…
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, in a partnership with Roche, has announced that the enrollment has been completed for the third phase of GENERATION HD1, a trial intended to study the safety and…
Research has recently been published in Nature Communications that shows the success of a new gene therapy in the treatment of Huntington's Disease. This therapy, an adeno-associated virus-based gene therapy, was tested…
By Jodee Redmond from In The Cloud Copy Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have recently announced they have identified hundreds of genes that are required for neuron survival. The…
According to a story from Yahoo News, Dr. Nancy Wexler spent around 20 years in Venezuela conducting pivotal research on a deadly rare genetic disorder: Huntington's disease. On Lake Maracaibo,…
Antonio Maltese is a young man living in Virginia. His family has also been devastated by the hereditary rare illness called Huntington's disease. In fact, he was diagnosed with the…
Patient confidentiality is often seen as an absolute in the medical world. Many people believe that it should never be broken. Cases do exist that challenge this thought however, where…
During the 1990s, researchers had a dream that by 2020, every individual would have access to their own genome. This would aid in their diagnosis and treatment as soon as…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biotechnology company Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals Inc., has announced recently that its experimental drug EHP-102 has earned Orphan Drug designation from the European Medicines…
According to a story from the University of Aberdeen, 57 year old Sandy Patience of Inverness, Scotland, is one of a total of 801 Huntington's disease patients from around the…
Sandy Patience is a 57-year-old man from Inverness, Scotland, and he has Huntington's disease. His mother and sister also have this disease, so he has seen others who are affected…
According to a story from EurekAlert! a recent study that was published in the Journal of Huntington's Disease has concluded that while this rare disease community is excited about what the latest…
According to a story from statnews.com, the family of 46 year old Tammy Stewart has been plagued by Huntington's disease, an ultimately fatal, progressive, degenerative disease that causes decades of…
For a long time, Huntington's Disease has been monitored and studied through the examination of subjective measures, such as Unified Huntington Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS), and survey-based questions. MC10 is…
According to a story from ncbiotech.org, a new partnership between Vertex Pharmaceuticals and RNA-based therapeutics company Ribometrix aims to develop potential treatments for serious diseases, including Huntington's disease, which is…
According to a story from Medical Xpress, a recent study has determined that the onset of Huntington's disease symptoms is triggered by genetic instability in a specific sequence of DNA…
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered that one segment of DNA is responsible for four rare diseases. As reported in Science Daily, the university team also believes that…
According to a story from Huntington's Disease News, Egypt is able to claim the dubious honor of being the Huntington's disease capital of the world when it comes to its…
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The blood-brain barrier is a “gatekeeper” that prevents toxins and foreign matter in the bloodstream from traveling to the brain. Check Orphan recently carried an article that had been…
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The Hermstads of Spencer, Iowa lost Jaci’s twin to ALS and now they must watch Jaci, rapidly descend into the depths of the same disease. Jaci has a rare…
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Calls to Ban CRISPR A scientist named He Jiankui recently shocked the scientific world with his announcement that he had created twin “CRISPR babies”. The babies, a result of…
According to a publication from Laboratory Equipment, a new animal study of mice with simulated Huntington's disease suggests that a protein associated with the symptoms of Huntington's can form small,…
Huntington's Disease Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease. It progressively affects the patient's mobility and cognitive function. Unfortunately, a cure has yet to be discovered and the condition…
According to a story from Biopharma Dive, an investigational therapy for Huntington's disease that is in development could be the first step in the implementation of the first-ever disease modifying…
As the medical field continues to advance, treatments are becoming less and less "traditional" because researchers are uncovering unique ways to combat illnesses. Therapies range from pills, to surgery, to…
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