Conceptual model of the relationship between race/ethnicity and time-to-diagnosis in individuals with Huntington’s disease. Credit: Neurology Clinical Practice (2024). DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200344 Research led by UCLA Health reveals that Black patients with Huntington’s disease in the U.S. and Canada received their diagnoses, on average, one year later compared to white patients after symptoms first appear. Huntington’s disease is a rare, incurable genetic disease that causes a gradual death of nerve cells, resulting in a variety of symptoms affecting movement, emotions and cognition. About 41,000 Americans have the disease and 200,000 are Read More