Francis was admitted to a hospital Feb. 14 after a bout of bronchitis worsened. He later developed a life-threatening case of ...

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in ...

Additionally, Francis had episodes of acute respiratory failure earlier this week and underwent bronchoscopies to suction mucus from his lungs. “He’s had respiratory failure and they were not ...

It was a coast-to-coast road trip the family took for this very reason. “’I don’t want to die in a hospital. I don’t want to die in a hospital,’” Liz Naylor remembered her son saying.

Coughing up white mucus can mean you have congestion with a respiratory infection such as bronchitis, or it can be a symptom of long-term health issues like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

On Monday, the pope “experienced two episodes of acute respiratory failure, caused by a significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm,” the Vatican had said in its ...

Doctors at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where the 88-year-old pope is being treated, said they removed "copious" secretions of mucus from his lungs by inserting a camera-tipped tube ...

“Cystic Fibrosis is where the mucus is too thick in the body and it affects every organ. The primary issue is lungs and digestion. Anytime Jack eats anything, he has to take pills to digest ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. – The Holy Rosary Parish in Bozeman is joining Catholics worldwide in prayer for Pope Francis, who is recovering from double pneumonia in Rome. Pope Francis, who turned 88 in December, ...

“Today, the Holy Father experienced two episodes of acute respiratory failure, caused by a significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm,” it said in a statement ...

The 88-year-old pontiff inhaled “copious” amounts of mucus in another setback in what has become a more than two-week battle to overcome a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia.

Today's setback was caused by a “significant” build up of mucus in the airways of the lungs ... hinting Francis still has a long road of recovery ahead. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, a Vatican ...