HD research news - medical research into treatment & prevention

Research news - 2008

• Get involved with the DeNDRoN Huntington’s disease Clinical Studies Group
• Test the new European HD Network online questionnaire
• HDA research grants now available - application closing date 14th April 2008

Take part in a major UK care study for 2008/09

A team from King’s College London have been commissioned by the Department of Health to carry out a study across the UK as part of the Government's National Service Framework (NSF) for Long-term (Neurological) Conditions. The aim is to inform the development of better support services for people who care for adults of working age with acquired neurological conditions, such as Huntington’s disease.

If you provide daily care and support for a family member aged 18-65 with HD you are invited to take part in the study. For further details phone Diana Jackson on 0207-848-5582 or Dee Howley on 0207-848-5418, email the LTNC Care Research Team at carestudy@kcl.ac.uk, or click here to download a Word document containing more information.

Research news - 2007

• Exploring the palliative care needs of service users with neurological conditions
• New hope for Huntington's sufferers
• Amarin Ethyl-EPA (Miraxion) study results

Research news - 2006

• The Euro-HD Network: the role of the UK
• Creation of a UK research network for dementias and neurodegenerative diseases

More research news - 2006

• UCL / National Hospital HD Research - new web site launched
  For further details visit: www.hdresearch.ucl.ac.uk

• Caspase 6 Resistant HD Mice Do Not Develop Huntington's Disease
  For further details visit: http://www.hdlighthouse.org

• Hope for Huntington's treatment
  A compound that blocks the progress of Huntington's disease raises hopes of a new treatment. For further details please visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/health/4790130.stm

Research news - 2005

• Huntington’s Disease Research Symposium
• Trial of Nabilone in treating the symptoms of Huntington's disease
• Statement regarding results of Lax 101 trial
• Bridging the gap between bench and bedside
• New technique for 'switching off genes' could end fatal brain diseases
• Bringing a drug to market in Huntington's disease
• Transplant Drug Aids Huntington's
• Progress report from Dr. Peggy Shelbourne
• The HDA Research Fund

Research news - 2003

• Stanford researchers home in on Huntington’s disease treatment

Research news - 2002

• CARE-HD study results
• Stem Cells and Huntington’s disease
• Juvenile Huntington's disease project

Research news - 2001

• HDA research grants
• Preliminary success of Fetal Brain-Cell Transplantation in Huntington's disease
• Genetics and Insurance Committee approve genetic test in relation to life insurance
• New strategies for treatment
• Scientists find solution to a mystery surrounding Alzheimer's, Huntington's and other neurological diseases
• Preliminary success of fetal Brain-Cell Transplantation in Huntington's disease
• Neural transplantation for Huntington's disease - Where next after the recent controversial US study in Parkinson's disease?
• Report of a debate about neural transplantation
• Important new research findings

Research news - 2000

• The LAX-101 research project in Huntington's disease
• Neural transplantation in Huntington's disease
• Jellyfish may help scientists decipher genetic mysteries
• The mouse brain can cure itself
• Dramatic mutation instability in Huntington's disease

Research news - 1999

• Antibiotic may treat Huntington's disease
• Brain cells are coaxed into repair duty
• A new lead in the quest for treatment
• Recent fruit fly research in HD
• Heat Shock Proteins, Molecular Chaperones and High-Throughput Screens top list of new research initiatives
• Activity may stave off Huntington’s
• What is a CASPASE?
• A Biochemical approach to Huntington's disease
• Cell Models: a potent new weapon in the HD research lab
• Clumps: villain or victim?
• HDF workshop finds stem cells in the brain offer hopeful new paths for research