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Huntington's disease breakthrough 'is like winning the lottery 10 times over' (www.bbc.com)
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Until now there has been no treatment. But on Wednesday researchers reported how a new gene therapy had managed to slow progress of the disease by 75%.

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[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

There was a much cheaper oral drug that showed similar efficacy in phase two trials this summer and the media ignored it.

Which drug is that? You’re not kidding about “media ignored it” I tried searching and found nothing.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca I'm curious too. Please don't tell me AI told you about an oral drug...

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