Learn More About Huntington's Disease

Learn more about Huntington's Disease

May is Huntington's Disease Awareness Month, a time to bring national attention to a rare, hereditary, and relentlessly progressive brain disorder that affects entire families across generations.

Huntington’s Disease: ‘There’s been so much progress in terms of scientific research – we’ve been bringing it out of the shadows’

In January 1994, 34-year-old Emmy-winning NBC war correspondent Charles Sabine was about to fly to Prague to cover a story when he received a phone call that would change his life. His father, John, had tested positive for the gene responsible for Huntington’s disease (HD), meaning Sabine and his older brother, also called John, had a 50-50 chance of inheriting the gene and developing Huntington’s disease, a degenerative neurological disorder fo…