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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Tonight we will be discussing obsessive compulsive behaviors in Huntington's disease. Read the article: Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors and Huntington's Disease http://hddrugworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=325&Itemid=30 Obsessive compulsive behaviors (OCBs) occur frequently in Huntington's disease (HD) and can cause great distress. These be...

Tonight our special guests are Dr. Samuel Frank - Associate Professor of Neurology and co-Director of Neurology Resident Education at Boston University and is involved with many HSG studies and trials, and Dr. David Stamler - Chief Medical Officer at Auspex Pharmaceuticals.   Tonight we will be discussing First-HD, which is is a Phase III clinical research trial of an investigational drug called S...

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Ask Dr. Goodman about pain in Huntington's disease tonight. Read her new article, "Body Discomfort and Pain in Huntington's Disease" According to two recent studies from the United Kingdom, bodily discomfort (which refers to total body physical suffering) and pain (which refers to localized physical suffering) are problems in Huntington's disease (HD) that significantly af...

PRE-CELL! Help 4 HD International is excited to announce that UC Davis will begin recruitment for PRE-CELL which is the lead-in observational study for their future planned stem cell trial for Huntington's disease. Per Terry Tempkin (Clinical Project Manager): "UC Davis has received approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB), to begin the observational PRE-CELL study." Terry Tempkin went o...

Pre-Recorded Show... Today's episode is a prelude to next weeks LIVE update with Teresa Tempkin RNC, MSN, ANP from the HDSA Center of Excellence, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Department of Neurology. Hello everyone! It was one year ago Help 4 HD News Channel invited Dr. Jan Nolta, Director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program on the show to tell us about their CIRM (California Inst...

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 3:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Alicia Semaka, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She received her MSc in Genetic Counseling in 2005 and her PhD in Medical Genetics under the supervision of Dr. Michael Hayden at the Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics in 2012. Her doctoral research focused on interm...

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 3:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Christopher Ross who is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Division of Neurobiology, Director of the NINDS-funded Baltimore Huntington’s Disease Center, and Director of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America...

TUESDAY, July 9, 2013 Tonight our incredible special guest is Emily Fisher, MSc Medical Genetics, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. In 2012, Emily Fisher completed her Master's degree in science specializing in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. Emily's thesis project focused on the epidemiology of HD. This is very important...

Pre-Recorded in 2011... Introducing Dan Brennan from Lundbeck and talk about RNAi.

PRE-RECORDED... December 2010, hosted by BJ Viau Robert Pacifici was the Site Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Research Triangle Park Laboratories of Eli Lilly and Company. There he oversaw the company's global screening and quantitative-biology efforts. Prior to joining Lilly, Robert was Vice President of Discovery Technologies at Xencor, a pri­vately held biotechnology company that a...

Tuesday, May 21 PRE-RECORDED... Celebrating Woodie Guthrie through the eyes of Jimmy Pollard. May is Huntington's Disease awareness month. Tune in to a fabulous interview with the one and only Jimmy Pollard.

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Tuesday... new show time! Dr. Goodman will be with us tonight to talk about CHDI foundation and their role as the "collaborative enabler" with financial clout in drug development for Huntington's disease. Tune in for a very informative show.

Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Diana Rosas, MD, Director, Center for Neuro-Imaging of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease. Dr. Rosas and her team have focused primarily on the development of biomarkers for use in the study of neurodegenerative diseases, to better characterize progression, to better understand genotype/phenotype correlations and to apply novel neuroimaging approaches i...

Pre-recorded... Tonight our incredible special guest is Dr. Ira Shoulson founder of the Parkinson Study Group and the Huntington Study Group. Be sure to listen to our first interview with Dr. Shoulson on May 9, 2011. Dr. Shoulson is Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology and Human Science and Director of the Program for Regulatory Science and Medicine (PRSM) at Georgetown University. www.huntington-...

PRE-RECORDED January 30, 2012 Today's episode is with Dr. Mary Edmondson, a medical physician and a psychiatrist from Duke University, North Carolina; and a founder of the North Carolina Center for the Care of Huntington's Disease NC-CCHD), which is a wonderful organization that provides education, medical and social service care for Huntington's (HD) families in North Carolina. She too belongs to...

Monday, April 8, 2013 3:30 pm PT/6:30 pm ET - Super special incredible guest tonight will be Danny Cahill, winner of the hit TV series, season 8 of The Biggest Loser. Danny lost 239 pounds in 7 months! Amazing story about how his life was literally turned around by his wife Darci and a prayer. Of course, The Biggest Loser is really the biggest winner. His life has been changed forever. Tune in for...

MONDAY,  April 1, 2013  3:30 pm PT/6:30 pm ET It's time to ask Dr. Goodman "your" questions about the care and treatment of Huntington's disease... Tonight the topic is "What's empathy got to do with it?" Read her article, ask Dr. Goodman "your" questions and listen to the show. Please tell all your colleagues, friends and family about Help 4 HD Radio and click follow on our show page to get email...

MONDAY, March 25, 2013 Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Neal Hermanowicz, Director of the Movement Disorders Program at the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Hermanowicz is engaged foremost in patient care. He is a member of the Parkinson’s Study Group, The Huntington’s Study Group, the Dystonia Study Group, and the Multiple Systems Atrophy Study Group. Dr. Hermanowicz has been in...

MONDAY, March 18, 2013 Topics that will be focused on are: Our therapeutic strategy ‘MPAC’ technology, what are these compounds like PBT2? Brief historical background as to where our HD program came from.  A bit of science (although without AV this will be brief indeed) Why we are hopeful that the mechanism of action may provide patient benefit.  In particular our previous work with PBT2 in AD. Ou...

MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013, 3:30 PM PT/6:30 PM ET Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Mary Edmondson. She is a physician/psychiatrist from Duke University, North Carolina and a founder of the North Carolina Center for the Care of Huntington's Disease NC-CCHD). She will be here to talk about strategies on how to communicate with people who are experiencing anosognosia [medical term for lack of...

MONDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2013Happy Monday everyone and thank you for tuning in to Help 4 HD News Channel! This is your host, Melissa Biliardi. Please tell all your colleagues, friends and family about Help 4 HD Radio and click “Follow” on our Show Page to get email reminders of upcoming episodes. I want to thank our 50,350 listeners for tuning in! Help 4 HD News Channel Update is proud to bring the lat...

Monday, February 11, 20133:30 pm PT/6:30 pm ETTonight our dear friend Jimmy Pollard is back on the show with us. We will get to catch up with what he’s been up to in the last year. He is very involved in the history, culture, lore and folklore of Huntington’s disease working with the Woody Guthrie archives. We will get to hear about his latest project working in the archives. Interesting and poign...

Due to such an informative show, we are replaying of February 4, 2013 Show on February 7, 2013! Dr. Lavonne Goodman is back with us tonight on The HD View ~ Ask Dr. Goodman Show. Her knowledge and experience in treating Huntington's disease is a valuable asset to our community. Dr. Goodman has graciously agreed to offer her expertise every first Monday of the month, so please let’s take advantage...

Monday, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:30 pm PT/6:30 pm ET. It's time to ask Dr. Goodman your questions tonight about HD testing. Read here newest article "Predictive Testing for Huntington's disease" on her website: www.hddrugworks.org. Tune in for another very informative and educational program with Dr. Goodman.