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Medicaid standoff could put health care for many North Carolinians at risk

Unless lawmakers or the governor act, provider rate cuts of up to 10 percent will take effect Wednesday, jeopardizing access ...
Newsweek

Huntington’s Disease Treatment Breakthrough: What to Know

People affected by Huntington’s disease could at last benefit from the first treatment to slow the fatal neurodegenerative condition. Scientists from University College London (UCL) found patients ...
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Spruce Biosciences Stock More Than Quadruples After Breakthrough Therapy Designation To Therapy For Rare And Fatal Genetic Disease

Spruce Biosciences, Inc. (SPRB) on Monday said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to tralesinidase alfa enzyme replacement therapy (TA-ERT) ...
New York Post

Hope for sufferers of devastating brain disease as new treatment has 75% success rate

A novel gene therapy has been found to significantly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, offering new hope to sufferers of the incurable disorder that destroys brain cells over time.
The New York Times

New Treatment Shows Promise for Huntington’s Disease

A gene therapy injected into patients’ brains slowed progression of the disease by 75 percent, preliminary findings reported. By Dana G. Smith Preliminary results from a small clinical trial to treat ...

Spruce Biosciences Shares Hit 52-Week High After FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Spruce Biosciences shares reached a 52-week high after a drug update and favorable comments on X by Martin Shkreli. Spruce said the Food and Drug Administration granted Breakthrough Therapy ...
Phys.org

Bacteria may influence accumulation of gold nanoparticles in spruce tree needles

A new study has, for the first time, uncovered a connection between bacteria living in Norway spruce needles and gold ...
The Conversation

A new treatment for Huntington’s disease is genuinely promising – but here’s why we still need caution

Bryce Vissel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Yahoo

First Treatment that Slows Huntington's Disease Comes after Years of Heartbreak

MRI of a brain with Huntington's Disease. Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University ...
Scientific American

How Scientists Finally Found a Treatment That Slows Huntington’s Disease

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But last ...
Detroit Free Press

Drug trial could offer treatment hope for Huntington's disease. What we know

A new medical trial showed promising results as scientists seek a breakthrough to treat Huntington's disease, according to research team based in the United Kingdom. The clinical drug trial by ...