Pope Francis has been in hospital for more than two weeks with what some media reports are now calling “double pneumonia”.

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, 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 ...

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

Doctors extracted “copious” amounts of mucus from his lungs during ... tip to suction out fluid. The Vatican said the mucus was his body’s reaction to the original pneumonia infection ...

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

Doctors extracted “copious” amounts of mucus from his lungs during ... tip to suction out fluid. The Vatican said the mucus was his body’s reaction to the original pneumonia infection ...

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