The pope's medical team had to decide whether to "stop and let him go or force it and try all the drugs and therapies possible." ...

“I find him very lively,’’ Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital. “I ...

The 88-year-old pontiff will require at least two months of rest, rehabilitation and convalescence back at the Vatican during ...

The doctors who cared for Pope Francis during his health battle over the past few weeks at one point thought there might be no choice but to let him die.

Among the worrying information provided by Dr. Sergio Alfieri, was that Francis came close to dying on two separate occasions before he was allowed to return to his home at the Vatican over the ...

Gemelli Hospital medical director Dr. Sergio Alfieri announced Saturday that Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Sunday. The Vatican also announced that the pontiff would appear publicly on ...

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.

Dr. Sergio Alfieri said the 88-year-old pontiff and people close to him alike understood “that he might not survive the night,’’ after the bronchospasm attack during which the pope inhaled ...

“I find him very lively,’’ Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital.

“I find him very lively,’’ Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital.