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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson�s Research

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The best way to fight disease and illnesses is to be actually experiencing them and trying to find ways to combat them. Such was the motivation that popular celebrity actor Michael J. Fox that brought him to put up this foundation in May, 2000. Fox was diagnosed in 1998 as having a young-onset Parkinson�s disease. Instead of looking for a cure on his own, he turned to making it a foundation to be able to help and make research on how to cure or fight the dreaded disease that has accumulated over $90,000.00 to date.

michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

While there has still been no clear cure for Parkinson�s, Fox still believes that there is hope and that people suffering from it will eventually triumph against it. Donations are continuously racking in and such funds are the basis for making the aggressive research of the foundation advanced and possible to finally discover proper therapies and cures for Parkinson�s disease.

[tags]parkinsons, disease, charity, foundations[/tags]

Originally posted on March 7, 2007 @ 7:40 pm

Helping out the People with Diseases and Mental Illnesses

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Health has been a very delicate issue and while there are the usual cures for most contracted or inherited diseases, the matter of being able to come up with funds to seek medication or advice has been the obstacle for most people today. Not all people are capable of affording the physician fees and medicines to cure such diseases.

The Less Fortunate People of the Poverty

A lot of people are aware of these, hence the reason why projects such as medical missions have become common today. A form of charity geared towards the overall health of people of group in a certain region, extending a helping hand at the best capacity is what people aim to do.

However, while lives are hard to maintain, there is no promise that all can be served. But with the joint efforts anywhere in the world, putting a stomp to such issues may be accomplished. All it needs is patience and dedication to these people who seek help in any form from such diseases or illnesses today.

[tags]mental illness, disease, charity, medical mission[/tags]

Originally posted on January 10, 2007 @ 7:05 pm