Pope Francis recently died at the age of 88 due to complications of double pneumonia, also called bilateral pneumonia. It is an infection of the lungs that occurs in both lungs at the same time.

Pneumonia, a serious lung infection, affects millions of Americans each year and can become life-threatening if left untreated. While many dismiss the early symptoms as a routine respiratory ...

Val Kilmer’s death on Tuesday has sparked reminders of the risks of pneumonia. The actor, best known for his role as Iceman in "Top Gun" — along with "Batman Forever," "The Doors" and many ...

Pneumonia causes more than a million hospitalizations and about 50,000 deaths each year, according to the American Lung Association. The infection can impact one or both lungs, causing ...

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. (FILES) Pope Francis stay ...

Her reported cause of death was influenza-induced pneumonia, which can be a mild, severe, or potentially life-threatening acute respiratory infection. In fact, pneumonia was listed as the fourth ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to ...

Pneumonia is usually the result of a bacterial or viral infection and you can catch pneumonia from someone who already has it, as you can with the common cold. Pneumonia is an inflammation of the ...

pneumoniae), which can be a common cause of walking pneumonia, have been on the rise. As its name implies, walking pneumonia is a kind of pneumonia (an infection where the air sacs in the lungs ...

Walking pneumonia has been steadily infecting more people since last spring, says the agency, with younger children accounting for the most cases. That’s unusual, since most walking pneumonia ...

In community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), patients often present ... including Gram-positive and Gram-negative cocci, Gram-negative bacilli, atypical bacteria (C pneumoniae, L pneumophila and M ...

Pneumonia that fails to respond to treatment is a common problem. Although quantification of the frequency of this problem is difficult, approximately 15% of pulmonary consultations and 8% of ...