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Drug Shows Promise For Huntington's Disease

09 February 2010

An early stage clinical trial of the experimental drug dimebon (latrepirdine) in people with Huntington's disease appears to be safe and may improve cognition. That is the conclusion of a study published in the Archives of Neurology...
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Medication Appears Well Tolerated And May Have Beneficial Effects In Patients With Huntington's Disease

09 February 2010

A medication previously studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease (latrepirdine) appears well tolerated and may improve thinking, learning and memory skills among individuals with Huntington's disease, according to a...
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Huntington's Disease: Discovery Of Mechanism In Brain Cell Injury Offers New Treatment Approaches

28 January 2010

Scientists at the Brain Research Centre and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics have uncovered a key cellular mechanism that alters brain cell function in Huntington's disease, and identified a possible treatment for the disease...
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Huntingtons Disease News Articles Archive - Page 1

23 January 2010

New Gene Involved In Autophagy, The Cellular Recycling Programme, Identified By Researchers

21 January 2010

Discovery Of Compounds That Help Protect Nerve Cells

20 January 2010

Alnylam And Collaborators Present Data From Multiple Pre-Clinical And Clinical Programs At RNAi Keystone Symposium

17 January 2010

Evotec And CHDI Foundation, Inc. Extend Collaboration To Fight Huntington's Disease

11 January 2010

Elixir Announces First Sirtuin Inhibitor Clinical Trial

31 December 2009

Subtle Change Dramatically Reduces Pathogenic Potential Of Huntington's Protein

22 December 2009

Huntington's Disease: IKK May Act As Both Inhibitor And Promoter

09 December 2009

Amarin Neuroscience Ltd Withdraws Its Marketing Authorisation Application For Ethyl Eicosapent Soft Capsules (ethyl Eicosapent), Europe

08 December 2009

Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute To Supply Stem Cells To Scientists Developing Treatments For Huntington's Disease

16 November 2009

Researchers Find Potential Treatment For Huntington's Disease

Better Understanding Of Synaptic Activity May Support 'Use It Or Lose It' Hypothesis In Huntington's Disease

02 November 2009

Efficacy Of Gene Therapy In Mouse Models Of Huntington's Disease Shown By Caltech Researchers

28 October 2009

New TAU Formulation May Slow Down Parkinson's, Alzheimer's And Huntington's Diseases

15 October 2009

Gladstone And Partners Receive $3.7 Million For Huntington's Disease Research

30 September 2009

Protein Inhibitor Helps Rid Brain Of Toxic Tau Protein

28 September 2009

Mechanism For Potential Friedreich's Ataxia Drug Uncovered

02 August 2009

What Is Huntington's Disease? What Causes Huntington's Disease?

01 August 2009

Pfizer And Medivation Initiate Phase 3 Trial Of Dimebon In Patients With Huntington Disease

23 July 2009

Disturbed Calcium Signaling May Play A Critical Role In Brain Cell Degeneration

21 July 2009

In Huntington's Patients, Transplanted Neurons Develop Disease-Like Pathology

15 July 2009

Huntington's: Researchers Gain Insight Into Mechanism Underlying The Disease

15 June 2009

Huntington's Disease Deciphered

12 June 2009

Risk Of Discrimination For Individuals With Family History Of Genetic Disease

11 June 2009

Transmission Of Huntington's Disease To Offspring Among Male Carriers: Risk Estimated By Researchers

06 June 2009

Discovery Of Tiny Protein-Activator Responsible For Brain Cell Damage In Huntington Disease

21 May 2009

Identifying Pathways In The Brain To Understand The Underlying Molecular Mechanism Of Huntington's Disease

20 May 2009

New Tool Helps Researchers Identify DNA Patterns Of Cancer, Genetic Disorders

07 May 2009

Gene Key To Alzheimer's-Like Reversal In Mice Identified By MIT-Led Team

04 May 2009

Small Molecules Might Block Mutant Protein Production In Huntington's Disease

21 April 2009

USC Researchers Uncover Clues About Cause Of Huntington's Disease

New Hope For Using Gene Therapy To Treat Neurodegenerative Disorder

18 April 2009

Changes In Brain Discovered Long Before Huntington Disease Takes Hold

14 April 2009

Amarin's Marketing Authorization Application For AMR101 To Treat Huntington's Disease Accepted For Review By EMEA

13 April 2009

New Therapeutic Strategy Could Target Toxic Protein In Most Patients With Huntington's Disease

04 April 2009

Modification Of Mutant Huntingtin Protein Increases Its Clearance From Brain Cells

30 March 2009

Gladstone Institutes Establishes Taube-Koret Center For Huntington's Disease Research, Aims To Cure Huntington's By 2020

27 March 2009

Targeted Program To Cure Huntington's By 2020

13 March 2009

Ampakines Reverse Memory Loss In Animal Model Of Huntington's Disease

09 March 2009

Studies In Animals Demonstrate AMPAKINE Molecules Reverse Memory Loss In Huntington's Disease

Molecular '2-Step' Leading To Protein Clumps Of Huntington's Disease Described By Pitt Researchers

04 February 2009

News From The Journal Of Neuroscience 3-Feb-2009

20 January 2009

Research Breakthrough Targets Genetic Diseases

08 January 2009

Using Lasers To Destroy Amyloid Proteins

07 January 2009

Clioquinol Inhibits Action Of The CLK1 Aging Gene, May Alleviate Alzheimer's

11 December 2008

Brain Deletion Of FK506-Binding Protein Enhances Repetitive Behaviors In Mice

09 December 2008

Participants In Clinical Trials Should Be Viewed As Partners In Research

08 December 2008

Novel Histone Demethylase Protein Complex Discovered By Researchers At Stowers Institute's Workman Lab

01 December 2008

Cambridge Laboratories Announces Launch Of XENAZINE(R) (Tetrabenazine) In The US

28 November 2008

'Deranged Calcium Signaling' Contributes To Neurological Disorder, UT Southwestern Researchers Find

25 November 2008

Chorea Associated With Huntington's Disease Ovation - Nationwide Availability Of Xenazine (tetrabenazine) Tablets In U.S.

18 November 2008

New Clue Emerges For Cellular Damage In Huntington's Disease

11 November 2008

Raptor Pharmaceuticals To Collaborate With Centre Hospitalier Universitaire D'Angers For Phase II Clinical Trial In Huntington's Disease

15 October 2008

2008 Horwitz Prize Awarded To Arthur Horwich & Ulrich Hartl For Cellular Protein Folding

11 October 2008

Antioxidants Could Help Huntington's Disease Sufferers

07 October 2008

Structure Of Important Neurological Receptor Defined By Scripps Research Scientists

24 September 2008

Compounds That Prevent Nerve Damage Discovered By Duke Team

20 September 2008

Repligen Announces Publication Of Positive Results With Proprietary HDAC Inhibitor In Huntington's Disease Model

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Most Popular Articles For Huntingtons Disease

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Researchers Find Potential Treatment For Huntington's Disease
16 Nov 2009
Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal...

Protein Inhibitor Helps Rid Brain Of Toxic Tau Protein
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Mechanism For Potential Friedreich's Ataxia Drug Uncovered
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New TAU Formulation May Slow Down Parkinson's, Alzheimer's And Huntington's Diseases
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Efficacy Of Gene Therapy In Mouse Models Of Huntington's Disease Shown By Caltech Researchers
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