Help 4 HD Live!

Tune in to hear Katie Jackson and Katrina Hamel discuss all that Help 4 HD International did for Huntington's Awareness Month

About HSG The Huntington Study Group (HSG), which was formed in 1993, is the world’s first HD cooperative therapeutic research organization. Today, HSG is a world leader in facilitating high quality clinical research trials and studies that bring us closer to finding more effective treatments for HD and reducing the burden of HD for families affected by the disease. HSG is an organization of compa...

Lauren Steffan will be on with us to talk about all that she is doing to advocate for our HD community when it comes to research and care. 

Seth found out as a 15-year-old that his mom had a rare, neurological, genetic disease known as Huntington’s Disease (HD). HD is like having symptoms of ALS, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s all at once, and there currently is no cure. Five years later, Seth tested positive for HD and used the results as motivation to give back to the community through fundraising, advocacy, and volunteer efforts. His...

Join us as founder and creator, Casey Herrington discusses the Huntington's Disease Global Ecosystem Map (HD GEM) Project. HD GEM Project's mission is to further engage with the "silent" 70% of the HD community by helping those impacted by Huntington's disease (HD) find the resources they need to better assist them on their HD journey. This not for profit project was started and created by Casey H...

Join our host, as Ginnievive Patch discusses her recent article in The Huntington's Post about Survivor's Guilt. It is very common for family members that are HD negative to feel guilty about their results. 

Tune in to hear Cossetta Stroud talk about her organization Cozie Care and an event they are hosting in Southern California.

Join us as Andrew Feigin, SIGNAL Principal Investigator and Maurice Zauderer, PhD, President of Vaccinex discuss the SIGNAL trial.  

James Valvano, CEO and founder of WeHaveAFace will be joining our host to discuss their upcoming convention in Orlando, Florida. Please tune in to get all of the details. 

Tune in to hear Vicki Owen, head of Help 4 HD International's LEEP program, talk about their recent experience exhibiting at Alabama Cheif of Police Winter Conference.

Join Sharon and Katie to hear a discussion of Help 4 HD International's newest brochure, "Clinical Trials." They will talk about how to get involved in clinical trials, what "informed consent" means, the challenges of clinical trials and how to best prepare for them, personal experiences with clinical trials for Huntington's disease, and how to become a patient advocate for research and clinical t...

Dr. Mark Yarborough, Dean's Professor of Bioethics from UC Davis, joins us to talk about the bioethics of clinical trials--the question of whether new practices in biological research are both moral and ethical. This topic has a huge impact on research currently being done on Huntington's disease. He'll also talk about the challenges of doing clinical trials for Juvenile Huntington's disease. IRBs...

The Huntington’s Disease Youth Organization is an international non-profit organization set up to specifically provide support for young people around the world impacted by Huntington’s disease.

We are excited to have Wendy Erler, Vice President of Patient Advocacy, share the latest on gene editing on “Help 4 HD Live!” Wave Life Sciences goal: Our goal is to bring meaningful therapies to patients with serious genetic diseases.

In honor of Valentine's Day, we are celebrating the very special love that caregivers exhibit every single day as they care for their loved ones who have HD or JHD. Our guests are four amazing women: Barb Sipes, Carla Arriola, Sue Gamble, and Tina Parker Wooldridge. They will share how the disease has changed their relationships and what it has taught them about love. We invite you to join in the...

CIRM's mission is to accelerate stem cells teatments to patients with unmeant medical needs.

Our guest this week is Kinser Cancelmo. Kinser lost her husband to HD and her daughter to JHD. Meg was only 15 when she lost her battle with JHD. Kinser started the “Meg’s Fight for a Cure JHD Foundation” in memory of Meg to help raise research funds for a cure and to help other families affected by JHD. 

Join us and our guest Ezra Parzybo, Cannabis Consultant and author of "Cannabis Consulting; Helping Patients, Parents, and Practitioners Understand Medical Marijuana" available from UPNE Spring, 2018. Ezra will be joining us to discuss his work in the cannabis community and the benefits that he has seen for those suffering from diseases such as HD and JHD. 

Join us as Help 4 HD's executive team and volunteers share how they will navigate through the holiday season. As a follow up from last week's radio show with Dr. Bonnie Hennig-Trestman, the team members will share their current and past experiences as a families affected by HD/JHD. The holidays can be stressful without an illness, but when you add HD or JHD it can increase the stress. Please liste...

Our guest this week is Dr. Bonnie Hennig-Trestman, LCSW, DSW. She is joining us to discuss how HD and JHD families can navigate through the holiday season with less stress and more enjoyment.  Dr. Bonnie L. Hennig-Trestman currently has a private tele-therapy practice and serves on the Board of Directors for the Huntington’s Disease Youth Organization (HDYO). She served as the Director of the UCon...

Dr. Peg Nopoulos joins Katie Jackson on Help4HD Live! and discusses her work at the University of Iowa. Dr. Nopoulos is a psychiatrist that works with clients that have HD and JHD. There are several observational studies and clinical trials that are conducted at the University of Iowa. The JHD observational studies are the Kids-HD and Kids JHD programs and those are conducted at the Peg Nopoulos L...

Listen as Katie Jackson and our guest, Peter Deng discuss JHD and gene editing. Peter is a Doctoral Candidate in the Pharmacology and Toxicology program at UC Davis.  Currently, he is being mentored by Drs. Jan Nolta, Kyle Fink, and David Segal at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures and Genome Center.  His research is centered on the production and evaluation of a novel DNA-binding thera...

We are excited to have Sonia Slevinski, research manager at Dr. Peg Nopoulos’s Lab at the University of Iowa, join us on Help 4 HD Live! She is joining us to discuss Help 4 HD’s HIPE Education Day that was held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in August. 

Sean W. Scott will join our host, Katie Jackson to discuss elder law and end-of-life care. Many HD/JHD families haven’t even thought of end-of-life care and the type of things they should have in place and may not know where to begin. Oftentimes, people at risk for HD are scared to get tested because they are afraid of being denied coverage and benefits based on their results. These conversations...

As the spouse of a man with Huntington's Disease, Laurie Moore will share her journey with her husband. Through all the emotional ups and downs, the appointments, and everything else that comes with HD, Laurie is going to share their experience on this oftentimes difficult road.