Huntington's disease treated for first time

Post by angerempell » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

Post by sleight42 » Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 7:10 PM UTC

mnw21cam wrote: post #107

sleight42 wrote: post #37

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There's little money to be made with HD. It's a 1 in 30,000 disease. There's been little reason for anyone other than state sponsors to support its treatment. Add this to the reason's to be disgusted by capitalism. Spoken as a widower of an HD wife.

I do research into neonatal diabetes, which is a 1 in 100,000 genetic disease. We're entirely state and charity funded. We have had a grant for many years to do genetic analysis on anyone from around the world who fits the criteria (diabetes under six months age) and who can send in a blood or DNA sample. It's a good model, and now more than 90% of patients with neonatal diabetes get their genetic diagnosis.