Abstract
In the 13 years since folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie died of Huntington's disease, it has become apparent that this hereditary neuromuscular disorder is not so rare as once supposed. Now, in addition to ongoing research, the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is adding two new research programs on this disease and similar disorders. The new funds, totaling $5.1 million, are an answer to one recommendation of the Commission for the Control of Huntington's Disease and Its Consequences, which made a report to Congress in October 1977. The money will be administered in the form of grants from the DHHS' National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), Bethesda, Md. Donald B. Tower, MD, institute director, says the grants will provide a center-without-walls approach consisting of investigators engaged in basic or clinical research in different departments of a university or at different universities and
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