http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Huntington disease (HD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene (htt). Though most of the symptoms of HD are neurological, the mutant HTT protein is expressed in non-neural cells as well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-immune-cell-migration-impeded-huntington.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:00:06 EST news272536182 A new study unravels key signals that regulate protective and sometimes pathological inflammation of the skin. The research, published online on January 26th in the journal Immunity by Cell Press, identifies a "gatekeeper" that, when lost, can cause inflammatory skin disease in the absence of injury or infection. The findings may eventually lead to new treatment strategies for the more than 10% of people in the western world that suffer from inflammatory skin diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-gatekeeper-skin-inflammation.html Medical research Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:35:13 EST news246803700 Scientists at Mount Sinai Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Toronto, University Health Network and McGill University have obtained significant new insights into the causes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune disorders including type 1 diabetes, lupus and Graves disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-genetic-clue-rheumatoid-arthritis.html Genetics Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:00:08 EST news232545414