Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them to small amounts of radiation, a new study says. Ultra-low-dose scans can effectively detect pneumonia ...

The health of Pope Francis, the 88-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church, is in bad shape currently after being diagnosed with pneumonia ... that the follow-up chest CT scan has revealed ...

Symptoms include shaking, chills, a rapidly rising fever, and sharp chest pain made worse by ... The more common viral pneumonia usually diminishes on its own, but all strains of pneumonia can ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it hard to speak publicly.

The chest CT scan he underwent (...) revealed the presence of bilateral pneumonia, requiring additional ... the cause of the infection (bacterial or viral). Bacterial pneumonias are treated ...

February 27 Doctors say a chest CT scan taken a day earlier shows the 'normal evolution' of pneumonia infection as it's being treated. Again no reference to critical condition. February 28 Pope ...

"The chest CT scan that the Holy Father underwent ... Most cases of community-acquired pneumonia are bacterial or viral. Bacterial pneumonia is normally more severe than viral pneumonia, according ...

This is the case with most types of pneumonia, including: If you have bacterial pneumonia, you'll remain contagious until you've been on antibiotics for 24 to 48 hours. If you have viral pneumonia ...

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