SHARON, Mass. (AP) – A Foxborough teenager whose battle with a rare genetic condition that accelerates the aging process inspired professional athletes and spurred medical research is being laid to ...

A teenager whose battle with a rare genetic condition that accelerates the aging process inspired professional athletes and spurred medical research was honored at his funeral on Tuesday. Hundreds of ...

There is a popular saying that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If that is the case, then Sam Berns turned a lot of lemons in his short life into the best lemonade imaginable. In 1998, when ...

(Gray News) – The longest-living survivor of progeria has died at the age of 28. In a Facebook post, the Progeria Research Foundation announced that Sammy Basso passed away Saturday. “Sammy was the ...

Sammy Basso, known as the longest-living survivor of the extremely rare genetic “aging” disease progeria, recently died at the age of 28, according to a social media post from the Italian Progeria ...