(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 ...

Sam Berns and Audrey Gordon, director of the Progeria Foundation attend The New York Premiere Of HBO's 'Life According To Sam' at HBO Theater in New York City, Oct. 8, 2013. Getty Images The ...

An organ transplant drug may offer hope for rare 'aging' disease in children. June 30, 2011— -- When Zoey Penny was only 4 weeks old, her parents noticed that the skin on her belly was hard to ...

Treatments for progeria are limited but lonafarnib and FTIs as a class have given renewed hope for children with the condition Despite an unpromising start for development of farnesyltransferase ...

The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) is the only organization in the world dedicated to discovering treatments and the cure for children with Progeria. PRF is a non-profit that was founded in 1999 ...

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, a ...

Boy%27s rare condition featured in HBO documentary Progeria accelerates the aging process Progeria victims live an average of 13 years A football team owner, a world-renowned medical researcher and a ...