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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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