Prematurely Aging Kids

I recently came across an article about children with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome(HGPS). It causes the rapid aging of kids. This disease is very rare, occurring to only 50 children worldwide. I learned that these kids age seven times the normal rate. Their mental growth is the same to other children their age, and their physical features include dwarfism, wrinkled skin, baldness and a pinched nose. Its symptoms are depressing for me to state, because they include osteoporosis, hair loss, and atherosclerosis; elderly problems. Because of the symptoms listed, they die by early childhood. A research team discovered while experimenting on mice, that a drug used for cancer can delay the symptoms of HGPS, and increase the survival of the mice that carry a similar disease. I hope that people will continue with their research to help these children, regardless of its rarity.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5763/934a