Announcements Quote by Michael J. Fox

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

— Mort Kondracke

“Although I owned a boat, I had no sonar, metal detector or any practical method of surveying the ocean bottom. With an incurable illness,…

— Peter M. Hunt

“The power of the new mass media made Grant’s illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.”

— Ron Chernow

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was…

— Linda Ronstadt

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

“The first thing that went wrong, according to Fat, had to do with the radio. Listening to it one night- he had not been…

— Philip K. Dick

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as…

— Helen Mirren

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

— Ron Ziegler

“All I ask of all my friends is that they understand this is truly a devastating neurological illness and not just about being a…

— Tracey Browett

“walk over and turn the television on to CNN, and it has a huge BREAKING NEWS banner plastered across the bottom of the screen.…

— David Rosenfelt

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.'…

— Gertrude B. Elion