{"id":48568,"date":"2025-10-01T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48568\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:25:09","slug":"series-of-health-service-failings-delayed-womans-diagnosis-with-devastating-huntingtons-disease-for-years-lawsuit-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48568\/","title":{"rendered":"Series of health service failings delayed woman\u2019s diagnosis with devastating Huntington\u2019s disease for years, lawsuit claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Family say they were left in dark about risk of them developing the neurodegenerative disorder\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/110 medical lawsuit.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">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<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Doctors left a man and his family in the dark for years about his diagnosis with Huntington\u2019s disease, a rare and devastating progressive neurodegenerative disorder passed from one generation to the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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\u2019s daughter, who herself has been diagnosed with the hereditary disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family say they were left in dark about risk of them developing the neurodegenerative disorder The High Court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,6151,85,46,37761,37762,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-48568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-hse","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-shane-phelan","14":"tag-simon-harris","15":"tag-stephen-donnelly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}