A weak and frail Pope Francis left the hospital Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, ...

Pope Francis ’ doctors are providing their first in-person update on the pontiff’s condition in a month, in a sign that he ...

But there’s probably a good reason you have that cough — and it can tell you a lot about what’s going on in your body.

His condition soon developed into double pneumonia. The 88-year-old pope ... or a camera-tipped tube with a device to remove ...

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition affecting the lungs, most commonly caused by bacterial or viral infections that move from the upper respiratory tract to the lower respiratory tract. The ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis hit the three-week mark Friday in his hospitalization for double pneumonia ... and underwent bronchoscopies to suction mucus from his lungs. “He’s had respiratory ...

The pope was admitted on February 14 with a bad case of bronchitis that devolved into bilateral pneumonia ... doctors had to intervene by aspirating mucus from his airways. He's been alternating ...

Notice the signs: Green and yellow phlegm Because pneumonia causes inflammation and fluid buildup in the lungs, it compromises our ability to get oxygen from the air and through our bloodstream to ...

Pneumonia involves fluid or debris in the lungs ... Doctors had to conduct two bronchoscopies to extract mucus from his lungs, the Vatican said. This is common in older people for a number ...

The accumulation of the mucus is a result of the pneumonia and that causes coughing and spasm as the bronchi try to expel the mucus as it irritates them,' the sources said. Theodore Iwashyna, ...