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 ...

Scientists have slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease for the first time with a “groundbreaking” new treatment. Experts from University College London (UCL) said the finding could “change ...

In a groundbreaking first, a gene therapy in clinical trials has slowed the progression of Huntington's disease, a rare genetic disorder in which toxic bits of protein cause brain cells to malfunction ...

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 ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is one of those rare conditions that affects not just the patient but the entire family—medically, emotionally and genetically. This inherited brain disorder causes gradual ...

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 ...

For the first time, doctors have successfully treated Huntington’s disease, one of the most devastating genetic conditions known to medicine. Often described as a cruel combination of dementia, ...