Michael J. Fox
- Disease: Parkinson’s disease
Michael J. Fox is a Canadian-American retired actor and film producer best known for his role as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy. Fox is the recipient of numerous accolades, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
According to the mass media, our famous actor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991, when he was 29 years old. He later said that it took seven years between when he was diagnosed and when he spoke publicly about his disease. Unfortunately, in 2000, his symptoms worsened, so he had to semi retire from acting.
This was the year when Fox founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which is dedicated to finding a cure for it and ways to prevent it. This is the largest non profit funder of Parkinson’s disease research in the world, investing more than $800 in medical research. Last year (2020) he had to retire from acting because of his poor health.
About this disease: Parkinson’s disease is a progressively evolving neurodegenerative disorder that can dramatically affect people’s lives. To be more specific, Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease (related to the nervous system) that affects the motor functions of the body. In other words, those who suffer from Parkinson’s disease are starting to move harder, to speak and to gesture with difficulty.
