For decades, so many families have watched loved ones suffer from Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative condition that progressively worsens over time. But now, there is finally a light at the end ...

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 ...

An experimental new gene therapy for Huntington’s disease has shown promising results in phase I/II trials, with 75 percent less disease progression observed in the patients receiving the treatment.

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

Gene therapy is becoming a powerful way to treat challenging diseases that don’t respond to traditional treatments, and researchers now report the first success in modifying genes to slow Huntington’s ...

Topline data showed that an investigational gene therapy slowed Huntington's disease progression and met its primary endpoint in a pivotal trial, uniQure Biopharma announced Wednesday. A high-dose ...

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 ...

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 ...

An experimental treatment for the first time slowed the devastating progression of Huntington's disease, gene therapy company uniQure announced Wednesday, a rare hopeful advance against a cruel ...