Family say they were left in dark about risk of them developing the neurodegenerative disorder
The High Court is the venue for the hearing of a lawsuit being pursued by the daughter of a man who died with the neurodegenerative disorder
Doctors left a man and his family in the dark for years about his diagnosis with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating progressive neurodegenerative disorder passed from one generation to the next.
The claim is made in a lawsuit in which the HSE and several GPs in the west of Ireland are being sued for negligence by the now-deceased man’s daughter, who herself has been diagnosed with the hereditary disease.