Given that I had first seen Lorenzo’s Oil nearly 16 years ago, this bit of news came as quite a shock to me: Lorenzo Odone, the real-life person the movie was based on, died this past Friday at the ...

Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist, defied skeptical scientists to invent a treatment to try to save the life of his little boy, wasting away from a neurological disease, and to give hope to ...

Given he had trained and practised as a physician before turning to filmmaking, it is no surprise George Miller was so captivated by the story of Michaela and Augusto Odone’s struggle to save their ...

MINNEAPOLIS - By the time Beverly Davis called Dr. Lawrence Charnas at the University of Minnesota, she was desperate. Her 9-year-old son, Chase, had a rare genetic condition that was robbing him of ...

ROME (AP) - Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist, defied skeptical scientists to invent a treatment to try to save the life of his little boy, wasting away from a neurological disease, and to ...

WASHINGTON -- The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was told in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" died yesterday at his home in Virginia. Lorenzo Odone, whom doctors had predicted ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Doctors had said Lorenzo Odone would be dead by age 8. He died Friday at 30.