A Massachusetts community is coming together Tuesday to remember a young man who changed many lives just by facing his own health battle with so much courage.A funeral for 17-year-old Sam Berns is ...

Berns was the star of a popular documentary on progeria, a disease that accelerates aging. His parents, spurred by Sam's own illness, were... Sam Berns, the teen who became nationally known for his ...

FOXBORO -- The Progeria Research Foundation is holding a fundraiser Wednesday in town to find a cure for the rapid aging disease that inflicted Sam Berns. The event is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. at ...

A Foxborough teenager who became a “friend and inspiration” to many members of the New England Patriots organization, including owner Robert Kraft, died on Friday. Sam Berns was 17 and died from ...

Sam Berns -- the subject of the Oscar-shortlisted HBO documentary -- died as a result of complications from the extremely rare genetic condition progeria. By Scott Feinberg, The Associated Press Sam ...

Nearly seven years after his death, the irrepressible spirit of Sam Berns was palpable last week as a drug treatment for progeria, the rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging, won approval ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff who overcame resistance to reshape the Roman Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday at 88. by The Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - A teenager ...

Sam Berns died last week, at the age of 17. I never knew him, but he touched my heart -- and those of so many others. I first saw his picture years ago. A teenager weighing 50 pounds and looking like ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug that extends the lives of children with an extremely rare genetic disorder that causes them to grow old before they grow up. The disorder, progeria ...

Sam Berns, the teen who became nationally known for his fight against a disease that accelerates aging, died on Friday from complications of his disorder. As our friends at Shots explained back in ...