More than anything, Sam lived. A student at Foxborough High School — in his and the Patriots’ hometown — he joined the marching band, playing a specially designed snare drum.

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. Berns ...

Foxborough High School’s Class of 2015 is establishing a garden in memory of their classmate Sam Berns, who lost his battle with progeria, the accelerated aging disease, in January 2014 ...

Hundreds of 17-year-old Sam Berns' classmates turned out for the ceremony at Temple Israel in Sharon, Mass., New England Cable News reported. Patriots owner Robert Kraft was among the mourners.

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 ...

Sam Berns, the 17-year-old star of Life According to Sam —a feature-length documentary about his life that’s been shortlisted for an Academy Award—died last week from complications of progeria.

The year before Sam Berns died at 17 of progeria, an ultra-rare fatal genetic disease that causes premature aging, the Foxborough High School student said he hoped his mother, a physician, would ...

Saturday night could have been a moment for Sam Berns to celebrate — standing in the middle of Gillette Stadium, ... playing a specially designed snare drum.

(CNN) — Saturday night could have been a moment for Sam Berns to celebrate — standing in the middle of Gillette Stadium, flanked by some of his beloved New England Patriots, and no doubt ...