Pope seeks to end stigma of devastating Huntington's Disease

Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 06:21 in Health & Medicine

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis embraced weeping mothers, fathers and children with Huntington's Disease on Thursday as he sought to remove the stigma of an incurable genetic disorder that causes such devastating physical and psychiatric effects that its sufferers are often shunned and abandoned....

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