Treatments for neurological diseases have been developing rapidly in the modern era. Despite the development of new medicines and therapeutic techniques for many conditions, no cure has been found for…
We recently read an article in Health News and Information that connected two conditions we weren't expecting to read about together. Scientists have discovered a potential link between rheumatoid arthritis.…
According to BioPortfolio, the company UniQure has recently announced that the first hemophilia B patient has been enrolled in their Phase III study of the treatment AMT-061, which is an…
According to PRNewswire, Express Scripts announced a new program to benefit people living with rare diseases on May 31st. The program, called Second Opinion is part of the company’s larger…
Researchers at Columbia University have found a way to apply CRISPR, a tool used in gene therapies, to new types of disease, reports News Medical. The study was carried out…
In Canada, it is illegal to require a person to disclose results of genetic testing in any form of contract. The government of Quebec, however, recently issued a series of…
According to a story from the Chicago Tribune, Maine South High School, located in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois, raised over $60,000 for Huntington's disease research. The school…
According to a story from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a group of scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unearthed a new mechanism that could…
According to a story from The Telegraph, a team of Chinese and American scientists have used gene editing to create pigs with Huntington's disease. A portion of human genetic material…
Cindy Rogers never gets a day off. She barely recalls a time when she slept for more than a handful of consecutive hours. This is because Cindy serves as primary…
The disease may be daunting, but it won't stop young, determined woman Ellis Kerton. According to LincolnshireLive, Ellis learned when she was 19-years-old that she was positive for Huntington's disease.…
Just recently, MMJ International Holdings announced that MMJ Bioscience has received proper Canadian licensing to grow cannabis specifically to develop cannabinoid medicines to treat patients battling multiple sclerosis and Huntington's…
A new study by Northwestern scientists shares that patients with Huntington's disease are much less likely to develop cancer because the disease is toxic to cancer cells, recently reported by News…
According to a story from Morningstar, the pharmaceutical company Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals announced that its drug candidate EHP-102 was given Orphan Drug Designation by the U.S Food and Drug Administration…
According to a story from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, scientists from the university used a sample of skin cells from diseased patients and transformed them…
At the beginning of February. BioPontis Alliance announced a partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital. Together, the two set their sights on Huntington’s disease. Specifically, they hope to develop new treatment options.…
According to an article from BBC News, Jackie Harrison had a daunting choice to make. There was a fifty percent chance that she would contract Huntington's disease, a rare condition…
Ionis and Roche have licensed together for the development of IONIS-HTTRx, a breakthrough drug in the treatment of Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s disease is a rare neurological condition that attacks the…
Whenever I was looking for something I had lost as a kid, my mom would offer the same, unhelpful advice: It'll show up in the last place you look for…
Whenever I'm under a lot of pressure, I daydream about a day off, where I could watch true crime shows, eat pizza in bed, and never get out of my…
Children who like to dance are easy to identify. You’ll see them tapping their toes to pop songs, moving to the tunes on a television show or, in my case,…
Huntington's disease is characterized by the progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. As a result of the breakdown of these very important cells, the body and mind of a…
HSG 2017 is coming your way Denver! The Huntington Study Group (HSG) is a global professional group dedicated to finding better treatments and ultimately a cure for Huntington Disease (HD). They…
Causation vs. correlation. What does that even mean? If you ask your friend who majored in philosophy for a semester-and-a-half in college, you’ll probably get an explanation that sounds more…
What do you do when your four-year-old daughter first notices a man with a prosthetic leg? A coworker picked up the story in a grocery store when his little girl…
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