When we finally got our flight to Bogota from Quibdo, it was late at night. the plane was delayed and we did not take off until after 9pm. we landed around 11pm and we had to be back at the airport at 8am for the flight to Santa Marta. At…

Our first leg of the trip to see HD families took us to a place I had never been before. Choco is an area of Colombia bordering Panama on the North and the Amazonian region in the South. Choco has borders with both the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, and…

Claudia has managed to stage an impressive array of meetings during the month of May to celebrate the people affected by Huntington’s disease in Argentina. Part of this calendar of activities include a symposium to expose the social and medical issues affecting people suffering from HD. Both Claudia and I,…

Brenda’s Story – as told by Claudia Perandones from Buenos Aires, Argentina I have a patient, called Daniel L., with Huntington’s disease, who is in a delicate condition because he can no longer move by himself and has to be fed by means of a gastrostomy tube. Daniel has a…

Barrio San Luis is a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Zulia. Of approximately 3100 people living here, 700 are at risk (23%). The prevalence is estimated to be extremely high, perhaps reaching 10% of all people living in this small and confined area near the city of Maracaibo. During our February/March 2013…

A recent manuscript by a Swedish group (Ji et al., The Lancet, 2012) has revealed that the incidence of cancers amongst individuals bearing mutant expanded polyglutamine genes (and particularly Huntingtin expansions) is significantly lower than in the general population, even after adjusting for age. This study is a continuation of…