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 ...

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 ...

Will Forte advocates for people with Huntington’s disease.

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 ...

In a trial of people with early Huntington's, the newly developed therapy slowed the progression of symptoms by 75%. Reading time 3 minutes Doctors in the UK are claiming to have performed a ...

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

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

(CNN) - There may be some hope for those living with Huntington’s disease after a new experimental gene therapy was reportedly found to slow the progression of the disease. Drugmaker Uniqure announced ...

Symptoms caused by Huntington's disease include loss of motor control, involuntary movements, dementia, mood disorders, and psychiatric though disturbances.

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 ...

Huntington’s disease is a genetic condition that is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. The genetic change that causes Huntington’s disease is a CAG repeat of the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which ...