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Michael J. Fox started travelling with Jeanne Shaheen yesterday. Shaheen is running for the Senate in New Hampshire and is for stem cell research. The following is a list of articles covering yeserday’s event. The list also includes a blog entry from someone who was there.

Michael J. Fox in Durham, Tuesday September 23

Michael J. Fox to Campaign in NH Senate Race on Stem Cell Research - Pro-Life/anti-choice biased article

Actor, Stem Cell Research Advocate Fox To Campaign For N.H. Gov. Shaheen In U.S. Senate Race

Shaheen and Stem Cell Research - Pro-choice/pro-abortion biased article

Michael J. Fox campaigns for stem cell research at UNH

Actor pushes stem cell research: Michael J. Fox visits Durham on behalf of Shaheen Senate campaign

Shaheen, Fox stump for cells

Michael J. Fox Campaigns With NH Senate Candidate

Actor Fox Campaigns For Shaheen, Stem-Cell Research

Fox: Shaheen will be ‘leader’ on stem cell research

MJF: Take the Politics out of science - a first-hand account

Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan attended the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction on March 10, 2008. CLICK HERE for the details.

Americans for Cures Foundation Announces Michael J. Fox as Keynote Speaker at April Conference

Americans for Cures Foundation announces Michael J. Fox as keynote speaker at State of Stem Cell Advocacy 2008, the leading conference for grassroots advocates who support stem cell research

PALO ALTO, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) February 28, 2008 — Americans for Cures Foundation (www.americansforcures.org) announces Michael J. Fox as a featured speaker at State of Stem Cell Advocacy 2008, this year’s leading conference for grassroots advocates supporting stem cell research. The conference will be held on April 12-13 at UCSF Mission Bay. Americans for Cures Foundation welcomes new and experienced advocates of all diseases and conditions to learn approaches that can further their advocacy for the facts and promise of stem cell research.

The conference’s featured speaker is Michael J. Fox, the actor and noted Parkinson’s disease and stem cell research advocate. Mr. Fox joins other confirmed speakers including Robert N. Klein, Chair, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM); Amy Comstock Rick, CEO, Parkinson’s Action Network and President, Coalition for Advancement of Medical Research; and Bernard Siegel, founder and Executive Director of Genetics Policy Institute.“Our founding charter was to support the implementation of Proposition 71,” said Constance McKee and Amy Daly, Co-Executive Directors of Americans for Cures Foundation (A4CF). “Now we are reaching out nationally to Americans who are hungry for the facts, not the hype, about stem cell science. If we speak out together for cures, we can accelerate the pace at which hope becomes the reality of therapy.”

Don C. Reed, sponsor of the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Act (California, 1999) and a Board member of A4CF, said, “We are honored to have Michael J. Fox participate in this conference. The courage and determination with which he faces the challenges of living with Parkinson’s disease are an inspiration to millions.”

Registration for the event is open at www.americansforcures.org. Advocates needing financial assistance may apply for a limited number of conference scholarships. For more information, including details on sponsorship opportunities for State of Stem Cell Advocacy 2008, email inform@americansforcures.org .

Can you believe it… Updates three days in a row.

No. I’m not sick.

Anyways - I’ve updated the TV Schedule Calendar for the next week. You can see it here.

To further promote Gary David Goldberg’s new book, the entire Keaton Clan made an appearance on the Today Show (minus Brian Bonsall) on Thursday, February 7. To see the full interview, here. It’s a pretty good segment, especially for a fluff promotional piece.

The Paley Center for Media had a celebration for the release of Gary David Goldberg’s auto-biography, Sit, Ubu, Sit.

At the celebration on February 5, a mini-Family Ties reunion took place with Meredith Baxter, Gary David-Goldberg, Michael J. Fox and Michael Gross.

The fifth person in the picture is Marion Ross who starred in Goldberg’s series Brooklyn Bridge. Michael J. Fox directed one episode of this highly acclaimed series.

To see more pictures, go here

For the past year, maybe longer, I’ve been terrible about updating the MJFDB and especially the News section. I promised myself that I would do better this year and I have been collecting news articles - I just haven’t been posting them.

Well, get ready kiddies. This post will list all those news bits that I thought important enough to keep since late last year. Some of these are pretty old - can’t really be called ‘news’ anymore - but I don’t want to not include them on the site.

So, here we go….

At the end of 2007 Time Magazine released its lists of 100 Most Influential People in several different fields. Michael J. Fox was listed at number 54 in the ‘Heroes & Pioneers’ section. CLICK HERE for more…

Wow, this is an old one - May 2007. Michael J. Fox was the keynote speaker at the BIO 2007 conference. CLICK HERE for more…

Not really MJF-related but I found it interesting. MJF’s brother-in-law, Michael Pollan, is apparently is a food expert. CLICK HERE for more…

Dec. 17, 2007 - Esquire Magazine article: What I’ve Learned: Michael J. Fox. CLICK HERE for more…