The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple ...

Missoula Public Health is alerting the community that pertussis (whooping cough) is circulating in Montana.Since December ...

North Carolina health officials say they’re seeing another uptick in whooping cough cases. The state reports four times more ...

Health professionals have recognized higher-than-normal cases of whooping cough in Caldwell County this year and are advising vaccination and other precautions to reduce the spread of the contagious ...

Officials at the Caldwell County Health Department (CCHD) have noticed higher-than-usual pertussis activity, also known as ...

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, woke up after sleeping ...

But many signs indicated he was improving, especially after a respiratory crisis on Friday afternoon that resulted in him inhaling vomit during a coughing fit and raising the possibility of new ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suffered an isolated coughing fit on Friday that resulted in him inhaling vomit and requiring non-invasive mechanical ventilation, the Vatican said in relaying an ...

Francis had no further episodes of bronchial spasms like the one he suffered Friday, in which he inhaled vomit during a ...

Pope Francis' condition was said to be improving up until Friday. Doctors are now expressing concern over his prognosis.