Fox, now 53, turned the illness and his struggle with it into a gift for millions of others when he launched The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research in 2000. Its mission is to fund and support research in the hope of discovering a cause, new treatments, and, ultimately, a cure. read more
Michael J. Fox said he is in the "late mild" stage of the disease. For clinical purposes, Parkinson disease is arbitrarily divided into mild, medium, and severe stages. Stiffness of the limbs and difficulty starting movements are characteristic. read more