Berns had 'Benjamin Button' disease called progeria. Jan. 11, 2014— -- The 17-year-old boy who became the face of the progeria, the "Benjamin Button" disease, has died. Sam Berns died Friday ...

Berns died Friday evening due to complications from the rare genetic disease, according to the Progeria Research Foundation. He was 17. “I loved Sam Berns and am richer for having known him ...

Born Oct. 23, 1996, Sam was diagnosed with progeria at 22 months. His parents, physicians Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, established the Progeria Research Foundation in 1999 to find a cure for the ...

Foxborough’s Sam Berns, a 17-year-old high school student with the very rare premature-aging disease progeria, died Friday, his family said.Progeria is a fatal genetic condition characterized by ...

Sam Berns, the 17-year-old Massachusetts high school student whose life with the rare illness progeria was the subject of the documentary “Life According to Sam,” died on Friday, The New York ...

Sam Berns, the teen who became nationally known ... As ABC reports, most children with Progeria die by age 13. Sam lived to be 17. Sam's story was beautifully told in an HBO documentary titled ...

"I loved Sam Berns and am richer for having known ... We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to. Berns’ progeria diagnosis meant that he was afflicted with premature and ...

But through the work of the Progeria Research Foundation, established by Sam's parents, Drs. Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, the gene that causes the condition has been identified and drug ...