MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'huntington's disease'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704958&cid=t_315827_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FhWBKw4PwEO0%2F Top of the morning to you. Gray skies are hovering over the Pharmalot corporate campus this morning, where we are hustling the short people off to the school house for some learning and quaffing our usual cup of stimulation - our flavor today is Mocha Fudge Nut. Please join us. While you do, here are some tidbits from around your universe. We hope your day is productive and rewarding. Meanwhile, let us know of anything interesting or unusual. Have a great one… Study Reveals New Target For Antidepressants (Reuters) Teva MS Pill Reduces Relapses Less Most Injectables (Bloomberg News) Glaxo Moving More Jobs To Scotland (Scotland Herald) FDA Approves Merck Skin Cancer Drug (Reuters) Biogen MS Pill Shows Promise In Study (Associated Press) UK Docs May Consider Cost When Prescribing Off-La... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704958 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:07:42 +0100 4704958 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4118786&cid=t_315827_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F29%2Fjournal-of-neurology-neurosurgery-psychiatry-2010-vol-81-no-11%2F This article provides a detailed analysis of systemic energy homeostasis in HD patients in relation to disease characteristics. Filed under: Diabetes, Long Term Conditions, Neurological Diseases and Disorders Tagged: Diabetes, Genetics, Huntington's Disease, Neurology, Weight Loss (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4118786 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:46:34 +0100 4118786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442306&cid=t_315827_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FsG4v5D5FRSo%2F A transgenic animal is one where its genome has been changed to carry the genes from another organism. In the medical sciences, transgenic animals can be used to model human diseases or develop strategies for gene therapy. Using transgenic monkeys allows researchers to study genetic diseases in systems that resemble humans as close as possible, and implement strategies and experiments toward treatment or intervention. Last year for example, a transgenic rhesus macaques was created to model Huntington’s disease. Scientists inserted a virus vector carrying part of the mutated human gene for Huntington HTT and a fluorescent marker gene into unfertilized monkey egg cells. This allowed the virus to be integrated into the egg’s genome. Three newborns carried between two and four copies of th... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442306 Fri, 29 May 2009 03:50:00 +0100 2442306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1074988&cid=t_315827_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F196385852%2Fcommitte_votes_to_approve_tetr.html A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of tetrabenzine for chorea associated with Huntington disease (HD). If approved it would be the first drug in the U.S. approved for the treatment of chorea. The FDA is not required to follow the suggestions of its advisory committees, however, approval usually follows such a recommendation."The advisory committee's support of tetrabenazine represents an important advancement for Huntington disease patients, caregivers, advocates and physicians who treat this devastating disease," said George F. Horner III, president and chief executive officer of Prestwick. "We are committed to continuing to work with the FDA to secure full approval of tetrabenazine."Huntington disease is ... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1074988 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:00:47 +0100 1074988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486424&cid=t_315827_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F102611883%2F This Sunday’s New York Times article about genetic testing for Huntington’s disease made me cry. It features Katharine Moser, who tested positive for the huntingtin gene, and tells her family’s experience with the disease. Katharine’s friends, Colleen and and Chris Elio, are amazing people too and have offered to take care of her once she develops symptoms. If you’re curious to know what it’s like to have a gene that 100% guarantees you’ll have a debilitating and deadly disease during what is normally a person’s most productive years, don’t miss this article and accompanying videos. In fact, all of us will eventually know more about our future risk of disease than we ever anticipated once the genome revolution brings personalized medici... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486424 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:15:02 +0100 486424