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

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

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

The Vatican said that Monday’s two crises were caused by a significant accumulation of mucus in his bronchial tubes.

If the patient is immuno-compromised they are more risky and more life-threatening as compared to the usual pneumonia. Fever, cough, shortness of breath, expectoration sputum production are some ...

“Without timely intervention, patients risk developing conditions such as bronchitis or pneumonia, where mucus build-up can impair lung function,” he adds. Mucolytics, a group of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ...

This results in increased mucus secretion and may cause breathlessness as well.” In contrast, pneumonia is a lung infection where the air sacs (alveoli) become inflamed and fill with fluid or pus.

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

Pope Francis, hospitalized for more than two weeks with pneumonia in both lungs, suffered two acute respiratory failures, ...

Pope Francis suffered two episodes of acute respiratory failure Monday, the Vatican said, a fresh setback in the worst health ...