Among the problems faced by people with Huntington’s disease (HD), a common one is weight loss. Many individuals with the disease lose weight over time, even when they are trying to eat enough. This ...

This week, we heard an update from Roche about their huntingtin-lowering therapy, tominersen, currently being tested in the GENERATION HD2 trial. An independent data monitoring committee (iDMC) that ...

Today, Roche announced in a community letter difficult news for the Huntington’s disease (HD) community, discontinuing two separate clinical programmes after new data emerged from ongoing studies. The ...

No, not a puppy or a kitten or even a pet turtle, but a PET tracer to visualize huntingtin (HTT) protein in living subjects. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography, an imaging technique that can ...

The VIBRANT-HD study began in early 2022 and was a long-awaited trial of a huntingtin-lowering drug, branaplam, that could be taken by mouth. On Monday, August 8th, we learned that dosing has been ...

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In plain language. Written by scientists. ⏱️ 6 min read | New 12-month data from Skyhawk’s SKY-0515 is in and all four measures that make up the cUHDRS are at or above baseline, beating expected ...

In plain language. Written by scientists. Catch up on all the latest Huntington's disease clinical trial news in this one stop shop article covering all of the recent developments in making medicines ...

team of researchers from Roche and University College London (UCL) have developed a new clinical measure called the Huntington’s Disease Digital Motor Score (HDDMS). This score compiles data collected ...

For those who were following the live tweets from HDBuzz about the CHDI HD Therapeutics Conference or tuned in to the HDSA Convention, we may have caught your attention with the new HD staging system.

Last month, we relayed positive news from uniQure’s trial testing AMT-130, a gene therapy delivered via brain surgery to lower huntingtin (HTT). Data released by uniQure in June suggested AMT-130 was ...

A group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, has recently carried out an investigation to explore whether using a type of talking therapy, called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ...