{"id":154,"date":"2003-08-04T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/04\/michael-and-parkinsons\/"},"modified":"2003-08-04T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2003-08-04T14:01:39","slug":"michael-and-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2003\/08\/michael-and-parkinsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael and Parkinson’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until very recently, I had no idea that Michael J. Fox<\/a> was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease, as far back as 1991 :<\/p>\n

Fox has shifted a good deal of his focus and energies toward The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which he launched in year 2000, and its efforts to raise much-needed research funding for and awareness about Parkinson’s disease. He wholeheartedly believes that if there is a concentrated effort from the Parkinson’s community, elected representatives in Washington, DC, and (most importantly) the general public, researchers can pinpoint the cause of Parkinson’s and uncover a cure by 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On going through Fox’s website, I also discovered a surprising find : The medical students of the University of Miami recently awarded Fox their President’s Medal! As much as I admire Michael J. Fox as an actor and entertainer, I could not imagine why he deserved an honour like that.<\/p>\n

His charming and thought-provoking Commencement Address<\/a> probably answers that question best. Read this one. It’s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until very recently, I had no idea that Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease as far back as 1991. On going through Fox’s website, I also discovered a surprising find : The medical students of the University of Miami recently awarded Fox their President’s Medal !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}