Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But last ...

Estimates from the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENT (PREVENT) equations identified substantially fewer individuals eligible to receive aspirin for the primary prevention of ...

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Even hearing the phrase “Huntington’s disease” will make a room suddenly somber. So the joy that accompanied a recent announcement of results of an experimental gene therapy for the deadly diseases ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – There is a lack of drug treatment centers in the state of New Mexico, largely caused by the shutdown in 2013 and difficulty finding staff. Treatment centers like the Santa Fe ...

A gene therapy injected into patients’ brains slowed progression of the disease by 75 percent, preliminary findings reported. By Dana G. Smith Preliminary results from a small clinical trial to treat ...

A novel gene therapy has been found to significantly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, offering new hope to sufferers of the incurable disorder that destroys brain cells over time.

Doctors have announced the first successful treatment for Huntington’s disease, a devastating inherited condition that combines symptoms of dementia, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. The ...

Fueled by a dangerous combination of poverty, conflict, and rising global temperatures, cholera cases and deaths rose globally for the second year in a row, the World Health Organization says.

UCL and uniQure report the first treatment to slow Huntington’s disease with gene therapy AMT-130. High-dose patients had 75% less progression over three years compared with standard care. uniQure ...

The diagnosis and medical treatment of Alzheimer's disease, a condition that according to leading researchers in the field should be treated, has now advanced significantly. A series of articles in ...