Pope Francis has been in hospital for more than two weeks with what some media reports are now calling “double pneumonia”. The Vatican released a statement on Feb.18 evening saying laboratory tests, ...

Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14 after a case of bronchitis worsened; doctors later diagnosed a ...

Pneumonia is a diagnosis of inflammation or fluid in the lungs, which can caused by a viral, bacterial or fungal infection. "Bilateral" pneumonia means the infection has developed in both lungs.

Pneumonia infects millions of people every year. Cases of this highly contagious lung infection surged across all age groups ...

Pope Francis has double pneumonia, defined as a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection that causes inflammation and fluid accumulation in both lungs. Elderly patients are more at risk of severe ...

Pope Francis, the 88-year-old head of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is in hospital being treated for double pneumonia following a respiratory infection.

Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains under close medical supervision as he enters his fourth week in the hospital ...

Healthy lungs look “empty” on an X-ray because they are filled with air. But pneumonia fills the lungs with fluid. This means it’s usually very easy to see where pneumonia is affecting them, because ...

In a late update, the Vatican said the episodes were caused by a ‘significant accumulation’ of mucus in his lungs and ...

The Vatican said the mucus was his body’s reaction to the original pneumonia ... his lungs was a sign that he doesn’t have the muscle tone to cough vigorously enough to expel the fluid.

The pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, is still receiving high flows of supplemental oxygen to help ...

The Vatican said the 88-year-old pope once again slept well during the night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and was resting ...