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Pope Francis is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia — but what is this condition, and why might the pope be ...

The Vatican released a statement on Tuesday evening saying laboratory tests, chest X-rays, and the clinical condition of the ...

Pope Francis has been in hospital for more than a week with what some media reports are now calling "double pneumonia." ...

An inhaled gene therapy for cystic fibrosis developed by Boehringer Ingelheim is due to start clinical testing shortly, ...