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 ...

In 1996, Leslie Gordon, a biologist and a pediatrics resident at a hospital in Rhode Island, gave birth to a son, Sam. For a few months, Sam seemed healthy. But Gordon and her husband, a pediatric ...

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 ...

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 ...