A new, one-time treatment could be the answer to cure Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disease long-considered ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pridopidine showed promise in patients with Huntington’s disease who were not on antidopaminergic medications.

Key points Huntington’s disease (HD) can mimic psychiatric and addictive disorder years before a neurological diagnosis. Woody Guthrie and his mother had HD but, like many others, were misdiagnosed ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking development, researchers in the UK have reported the first-ever successful treatment for Huntington's disease, a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder previously deemed incurable.

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 ...

A research team says that for the first time in history, it’s successfully treated Huntington’s disease, a devastating and inherited disorder that kills nerve cells and leads to rapid decline and ...

In a recent study, beta blockers appeared to significantly lower both the annualized risk for conversion from presymptomatic to symptomatic Huntington’s disease (HD) and the rate of worsening among ...

Beta-blocker drugs -- commonly used to treat heart and blood pressure issues -- may slow the progression of Huntington's disease (HD), according to a new study. A common heart drug may slow the ...

uniQure reported positive topline data from the pivotal Phase I/II study of AMT-130 for the treatment of Huntington’s disease. The study met its prespecified primary endpoint, with high-dose AMT-130 ...

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 ...