Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MRI of a brain with Huntington's Disease. (Zephyr/Science Source) Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s ...

A new treatment that proves to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease (HD) marks a breakthrough for a condition that has long been considered untreatable. Huntington’s is a rare, inherited ...

People affected by Huntington’s disease could at last benefit from the first treatment to slow the fatal neurodegenerative condition. Scientists from University College London (UCL) found patients ...

For the first time, doctors have successfully slowed the progression of Huntington's disease by 75%, offering hope to patients and their families. Huntington’s disease, a cruel genetic disorder that ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom say they have successfully trialed what could become the world's first gene therapy for Huntington's disease – a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that is typically ...

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) was a well-known singer/songwriter with undiagnosed Huntington's disease (HD), born to a family burdened by undiagnosed HD. Guthrie’s mother, Nora, had the disease and was ...

Researchers have found a new treatment for Huntington's disease, an inherited genetic brain disease that affects over 41,000 Americans, in breakthrough clinical trial that involved at least one ...

In a small trial, a gene therapy injected into the brain slowed the disease by 75 percent over three years. Huntington’s disease is extremely cruel. Symptoms start with random, uncontrollable twitches ...

Scientists report the first therapy to slow the deadly brain disease. A one-time gene therapy treatment has shown remarkable success in slowing the progression of Huntington's disease in a preliminary ...

Victor Sung, M.D., director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Huntington’s Disease Clinic, reacted to the ...