Before she met her untimely demise courtesy of Heather (Alley Mills), Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease. Britt supposedly inherited the disease from her father, Faison ...

The drugmaker has recruited Will Forte, who appeared on “SNL” for nearly a decade in the aughts, perhaps most memorably as MacGyver parody character MacGruber, to join an ongoing Huntington’s disease ...

Britt is alive and being kept symptom-free from Huntington’s with a drug given to her by Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) and Sidwell ...

By bringing attention to his brother-in-law’s journey as a Huntington’s disease patient, Forte is the latest ambassador for Teva’s Honestly HD campaign.

General Hospital (GH) spoilers tease that February Sweeps has swept into PC with a blizzard and a torrent of action in Britt ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited neurological disorder that progressively affects movement, cognition and mental ...

General Hospital (GH) spoilers hint that Jason Morgan’s (Steve Burton) medicine grab could lead to a shocker. Will Jason find out that Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) doesn’t have Huntington’s ...

Skyhawk Therapeutics has announced positive interim results from its phase 1 trial of SKY-0515, an investigational treatment ...

"It was a couple nights of getting very little sleep," he tells EW.

There is no known cure for Huntington's disease. A genetic mutation creates harmful proteins that accumulate and cause the disease's typical symptoms. A team from the Department of Human Genetics at ...

Researchers have elucidated key steps in the ubiquitin tagging of the mutated huntingtin protein, providing hope for future ...

Genetic testing is the definitive diagnostic tool to identify the gene that causes Huntington’s disease, and you can have the genetic test years before symptoms begin. Huntington’s disease stage and ...