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DECRYPTION - Stromae, Taylor Swift... Stars and illness, the end of a taboo!

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intimacy is not limited to changing the way people look at health: it is propelling awareness to a new level, encouraging the public to prevent health while mobilizing the necessary funds for research. Michael J. Fox, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at only 29 years old, founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000, which has raised more than 1.7 billion euros. By making his personal fight a scientific driver, the actor has financed a revolutionary biological test that can detect the disease before symptoms appear. By announcing in 2013 her preventive double mastectomy linked to a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, Angelina Jolie caused what Harvard Medical School very seriously calls the "Angelina Jolie effect". Two weeks after its revelation in the New York Times, the university saw a 64% increase in the use of this test capable of detecting a genetic alteration associated with the risk of breast cancer. Where the scientific community fails to convince, the care pathway of a star is transformed into a public health campaign. In 2024, actress Olivia Munn told the story of the path that

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