The following is an extended version of an article appearing in the Spring 2013 issue of HIND-Sight.
May is Huntington's Disease (HD) Awareness Month, and The University of Iowa Huntington's Disease Society of America (HDSA) Center of Excellence is working to raise awareness of this devastating neuro...
The University of Iowa Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence is helping to organize the 2013 Huntington’s Disease Society of America Cedar Rapids Hoop-A-Thon fundraising event, ...
Jane Paulsen, PhD, professor of psychiatry, neurology, psychology and neurosciences, has been named the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience.
Nine-year-old Virginia Buck does not ask for much for herself. In fact, the only thing she really asks is that you try and understand what she and other kids like her are going through. Virginia is li...
Jane Paulsen, PhD, co-director of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence at the University of Iowa, has been named winner of the 2012 Juvenile Huntington’s Disease Award from...
May is Huntington’s Disease (HD) Awareness Month, and The University of Iowa Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) Center of Excellence is working to raise awareness of this devastating neuro...
The University of Iowa Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence is once again supporting the 2012 Huntington’s Disease Society of America Hoop-A-Thon in Iowa City, which is part of...
After nine years as the University of Iowa Huntington's Disease Center of Excellence coordinator and social worker, Anne Leserman is moving to New Jersey, where her husband recently started a new job....
With Anne Leserman’s nine-year tenure coming to an end, HIND-Sight asked Huntington disease family members, colleagues, and others for their thoughts on Leserman’s time at the University of Iowa Hunti...
Anne Leserman, social worker and coordinator for the University of Iowa Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence, has been named winner of the 2011 Huntington’s Disease Society of ...
Legislative action taken in Iowa this year prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against persons with Huntington disease based on genetic testing results.
Patients that come to the University of Iowa Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence’s clinic are getting used to seeing another familiar face as part of the clinic staff.
Specifics of a federal law are still being finalized that would protect people from having genetic information used against them by health insurance companies and in the workplace.