The head of Pope Francis' medical team says there was a crisis during the pontiff's battle with pneumonia so dire, they ...

In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the ...

Pope Francis’ medical team briefly considered suspending treatment after a Feb. 28 breathing crisis but instead decided on an ...

The 88-year-old pope’s most dire moment came back on Feb. 28 when he nearly choked on his vomit after being hospitalized for ...

After 38 days in the hospital, Pope Francis returned to the Vatican, but his medical team have said he will need two months ...

For days, we were risking damage to his kidneys and bone marrow, but we went ahead, and his body responded to the drugs and ...

Doctors taking care of Pope Francis weighed ending their treatment at one point as there “was a risk that he would not make ...

"There was a real risk he might not make it," admitted Professor Sergio Alfieri from the Gemelli Polyclinic. In an interview ...

Sergio Alfieri, the hospital's medical and surgical chief, who led the team treating the pope, spoke to an Italian newspaper.

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening ...

After a breathing crisis on February 28 that involved Francis nearly choking on his vomit, "there was a real risk he might not make it," said Sergio Alfieri, a physician at Rome's Gemelli hospital.

After spending more than a month in the hospital, Pope Francis has overcome a life-threatening case of double pneumonia, ...