Sam Berns, the Massachusetts teen whose battle with the premature aging disease progeria was the subject of the HBO documentary, 'Life According to Sam,' died January 11, 2014.

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, 15, who has the very rare premature-aging disease progeria, plays the drums in his high school's marching band. Courtesy of the Progeria Research Foundation hide caption ...

Sam Berns became a national figure for going public in his life with progeria, a rare genetic disease that causes accelerated aging. He died Friday at age 17.

Foxborough’s Sam Berns, a 17-year-old high school student with the very rare premature-aging disease progeria, has died, NewsCenter 5 confirmed.

Most progeria victims die of heart disease or stroke by their early teens. But Sam’s parents, physicians Scott Berns and Leslie Gordon, refuse to accept his fate.” ...

PEABODY — This is the first year Sam Berns won’t lace up his sneakers for the annual 5K road race to support research for a rare and deadly disease — progeria. Sam died in January at age 17 ...

Sam Berns, who suffered from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, died on Friday night. He was 17. Sam Berns Dies. Berns didn’t let his grim diagnosis keep him from doing the things he loved ...

Sam Berns, a spunky teenager who was proud to call himself a “band geek” and was at the heart of a 2013 documentary about a genetic condition that accelerates aging, has died. He was 17.

Sam Berns became a national figure for going public in his life with progeria, a rare genetic disease that causes accelerated aging. He died Friday at age 17.

Sam Berns became a national figure for going public in his life with progeria, a rare genetic disease that causes accelerated aging. He died Friday at age 17.