Rare Disease Week at the end of February reminded me of the time when my wife, Jill, attended a rare disease advocacy panel several years ago. When she arrived home afterward, she was visibly frustrated. As someone diagnosed with Huntington’s disease and as a fierce advocate not only…
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One of the most exhausting parts of living with Huntington’s disease isn’t always the symptoms. Sometimes it’s having to constantly explain them (or at least try). There’s a phrase many of us with chronic illness have heard far too often: “But you don’t look sick.” People usually say it…
Roflumilast, an oral therapy approved in the U.S. to treat inflammatory lung disease, was shown to reduce brain inflammation, promote the health of connections between brain cells, and ease symptoms in a rat model of Huntington’s disease. According to the research team, from Cairo University in Egypt, these beneficial…
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Last October, I wrote about a potential gene therapy for Huntington’s disease, an illness my family is very familiar with, as my wife, Jill, and daughter, Alexus, are both gene-positive. The experimental treatment is called AMT-130. According to uniQure, the therapy’s developer, top-line data from…
Becoming educated and informed about Huntington’s disease is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
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There is no cure for Huntington’s disease yet, but here you can find more information about current therapeutic approaches, as well as experimental treatments that are in the pipeline.
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