Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, and disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. Fox semi-retired from acting in 2000 as the symptoms of his disease worsened. He has since become an activist for research toward finding a cure. This led him to create the Michael J. Fox Foundation, and on March 5, 2010, Sweden's Karolinska Institutet gave him a honoris causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for Parkinson's disease.
Since 2000 Fox has mainly worked as a voice-over actor in films such as Stuart Little and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and taken guest TV roles such as in Boston Legal, The Good Wife, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Rescue Me. He has also released three books, Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002); Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (2009); and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010). He was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 27, 2011, for his outreach and fundraising work.
(CNN)The defense team for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, has won access to hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information. In a Thursday ruling, the U.S. ArmyCourt of Criminal Appeals denied an appeal made by the prosecution regarding access to classified information ... Read More ... "It's anybody's guess ... The government has not told us what it's giving us," he said ... Gen ... Gen ... ....
The expansion of the universe is due to dark energy, a mysterious form of energy that surrounds us and permeates the entire cosmos. But its exact characteristics remain unknown, with most of what we know about dark energy coming from its effect on galaxies ... Astronomers used the size of galaxy clusters as “cosmic rulers,” and compared nearby clusters to far away ones ... ....
STUTTGART. Delegates from Germany's anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the country's constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa. The AfD, set up just three years ago, has been buoyed by Europe's migrant crisis, which saw the arrival of more than one million, mostly Muslim, migrants in Germany last year ... ....
WASHINGTON — Scrambling to resuscitate a nearly dead truce in Syria, the Obama administration has again been forced to turn to Russia for help, with little hope for the desired U.S. outcome ... Kerry spoke at length on Friday with Russian Foreign MinisterSergey Lavrov to that end, and had been hoping to meet with Lavrov soon, according to U.S. officials. Kerry was scheduled to arrive in Switzerland late Sunday for talks with U.N ... U.S....
Voters across Europe have got the message from the way in which Greece’s opposition to austerity was crushed. Greece is running out of money. The government in Athens is raiding the budgets of the health service and public utilities to pay salaries and pensions. Without fresh financial support it will struggle to make a debt payment due in July. No, this is not a piece from the summer of 2015 reprinted by mistake ... Then or now ... ....
His fizzing personality made him popular on screen – but it’s as a sharp-suited fixer in The Good Wife that Alan Cumming found global fame. If you were dropped into the middle of a conversation with Alan Cumming, this is how it might flow ... Twitter ... Cumming joined a rich ensemble that included old pros such as Christine Baranksi, Michael J Fox and Stockard Channing, but also some talented newcomers like Archie Panjabi and Mamie Gummer ... ....
Everyone remembers that one kid at school who seemed specially gifted with the abilities to irritate their classmates, infuriate their teachers and, more often than not, get away with it ... So here's to TV's bad kids. They gave their teachers migraines and the rest of us belly laughs – and in some cases, pause for thought. Buddy Hinton, The Brady Bunch (1969) ... Advertisement ... Michael J. Fox's staunchly Republican teenager Alex P ... ....
(Source... 'Today's approval of NUPLAZID represents a major paradigm shift in the treatment of Parkinson's disease psychosis,' said Michael S ... 'Parkinson's disease psychosis is a debilitating condition that adds a tremendous burden on the lives of patients already contending with motor issues such as slow movement, loss of balance, and muscle rigidity,' said Todd Sherer, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of the Michael J. FoxFoundation ... or....
(Source. Southern Illinois UniversitySystem). April 28, 2016. by Christi Mathis. CARBONDALE, Ill ... All 'Films on the Field' are free and open to the public ... May 26 -- 'Back to the Future,' the 1985 classic fantasy featuring Michael J. Fox as small-town teenager Marty McFly travelling 30 years back into the past in a modified DeLorean where he encounters his parents as teenagers and has the chance to change the future, rated PG ... (noodl....
Incomewas CHF0.8 million in 2015 compared to CHF1.0 million in 2014, and is comprised of CHF0.3 million of grants from the Michael J ... Addex lead drug candidate, dipraglurant (mGluR5 negative allosteric modulator or NAM) has successfully completed a phase IIa POC in Parkinson's disease levodopa-induced dyskinesia (PD-LID), and is being prepared to enter phase III for PD-LID with support from the Michael J....
... while also operating as major political funders—think Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, or Walmart heiress Alice Walton ... Charter school supporters blamed the ruling on the bias of liberal activist justices, but as Michael J. Fox, a retired superior court judge, wrote in a letter to the Seattle Times, “I voted for the charter schools initiative....
Ever thought about how life would be in the future? How much more advanced would technology have taken the generations of the future? Will technology destroy or make the world a better place?. If you remember the movie Back 2 The Future II, Michael J. Fox was transported to the future year of 2015. After 26 years from the release of the movie, comparisons of the movie’s technology was compared to the actual technology of that same year....