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View Post: Heather's Positive Huntington's Disease Blog: <center>Hope</CENTER>
7 hours ago by Heather Dugdale  
Heather's Positive Huntington's Disease Blog. My Postive HD Blog. Monday, January 5, 2009. Hope. On Sunday I was too sick to go and work. I had stomach flu. I did not want to give it to everyone. Alice knows I have no immune system. ...
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View Post: Stem Cells Show Promise for Treating Huntington's Disease - URMC ...
31 Dec 2008 by tom_rickey@urmc.rochester.edu(Tom Rickey)  
Stem Cells Show Promise for Treating Huntington's Disease. Paying close attention to how a canary learns a new song has helped scientists open a new avenue of research against Huntington’s disease – a fatal disorder for which there is ...
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View Post: Secondary Heart Disease: Heart Attacks Are Just One Possibility
4 hours ago
Heart disease that results from another physiological disorder is considered secondary disease, differentiated from primary myocardial diseases that result from inherent problems in the cardiac tissue. When the heart no longer functions ...
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View Post: Medical News and Health News Blog Medical Information » Blog ...
1 hour ago
Understanding the cell death may also provide new insight into the larger issue of how the retina responds to assault, whether by infection or a disease process such as diabetes, said Dr. Sally Atherton, virologist and immunologist who ...
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View Post: Mobility and falls in people with Huntington's disease -- Busse et ...
16 Dec 2008 by Busse, ME, Wiles, CM, Rosser, AE  
Unified Huntington Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) motor, Functional Assessment Scale (FAS), Independence Scale (IS) and Total Functional Capacity (TFC) scores were obtained as well as data about falls and stumbles. ...
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View Post: Types of Dementia
14 hours ago
There are approximately fifty other causes of dementia, two of which are Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. Illnesses that do not originate in the brain, such as kidney disease, can also lead to the development of dementia. ...
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View Post: Idi Idi Idi!: Eulogy
2 hours ago by akilah  
Gajdusek also studied isolated communities around the world to investigate the genetics of other rare diseases including pseudo-hermaphroditism and Huntington's disease. "[Gajdusek] was an outstanding and very unusual character," Lev ...
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View Post: Hypothalamic involvement in Huntington's disease: an in vivo PET ...
28 Nov 2008 by Politis, M., Pavese, N., Tai, YF, Tabrizi,...  
Recent studies have shown alterations in metabolism, sleep and circadian rhythms as well as in several neuropeptides derived from the hypothalamic–pituitary axis in Huntington's disease patients; however, the pathology underlying these ...
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View Post: Allele-specific silencing of mutant Huntington's disease gene ...
20 Dec 2008 by Anonymous  
Related Articles Allele-specific silencing of mutant Huntington's disease gene. J Neurochem. 2009 Jan;108(1):82-90 Authors: Zhang Y, Engelman J, Friedlander RM Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative ...
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