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 ...

(National) August 15, 2006 - Remember the 1992 movie "Lorenzo's Oil"? It's based on the real-life story of a little boy with that rare neurological disease. His parents, desperate to find a cure, end ...

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 ...