Patients with Huntington's disease have a genetic ... be administered as a once-weekly injection to delay disease onset or reduce symptoms in patients with the genetic mutation.

As nerve cells controlling different functions are lost, people with Huntington’s disease may experience a wide range of symptoms related to movement, balance, and cognitive function.

From vision changes to genetic traffic jams and a clinical trial update, May was full of HD science excitement! Dive into our latest roundup to see how researchers are advancing Huntington’s ...

A study published in Nature Medicine reveals subtle neurodegenerative changes in people with Huntington’s disease gene expansion up to 20 years before symptoms appear. Using advanced imaging, blood ...

The most well-known person with Huntington's Disease was singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, author of "This Land is Your Land," who died in 1967 at age 55. Although treatment of symptoms has ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

An Orange County woman is opening up about what it’s like to live with a fatal, rare disease that’s been compared to having ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s all at once. Carrie Bryson, a ...

This progression explains why symptoms typically appear between the ages of 30 and 50, despite the presence of the mutation ...

SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. – May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month and marks a special time for Island families dealing with ...

The team found that although functions such as movement, thinking or behavior remained normal for a long time before the onset of symptoms in Huntington's disease, subtle changes to the brain were ...