Michael J. Fox has started his own foundation to help speed a cure for Parkinson's disease.
The name — the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research — unnerves him.
"The fact that it's eponymous just freaks me out," he said in this week's Newsweek. "But I understand, from a branding point of view, that it's effective. I get e-mail from people all the time saying, 'I finally told a co-worker that I had Parkinson's, the Michael Fox disease.' That's pretty heavy."
Fox recently taped his last episode of "Spin City." He is leaving the show to focus on family, his health and his foundation work.
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"I think at some point I may write a book," he said.