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Former Komeito chief Ishida dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Former Komeito party chairman Koshiro Ishida, who helped establish a coalition government in 1993 which put a temporary end to the Liberal Democratic Party's nearly four-decade monopoly on power, died of pulmonary fibrosis at a hospital in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 18, his family said. He was 76.

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Pioneering lung transplant recipient leaves hospital

OSAKA, Japan - A man (R), who received Japan's first transplant of both lungs from a brain-dead donor, holds a news conference with doctors at Osaka University Hospital on May 18 before leaving the hospital the same day. The man in his 30s, whose name was withheld, suffered from pulmonary hypertension. He said, ''It is like a dream that I can walk outside on my own feet. I feel happy to be alive.''

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Doctor dedicated to raising awareness on pulmonary hypertension in Gansu, China

STORY: Doctor dedicated to raising awareness on pulmonary hypertension in Gansu, China DATELINE: May 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:36 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): CAO YUNSHAN, Cardiologist, Gansu Provincial Hospital STORYLINE: World Pulmonary Hypertension Day is observed annually on May 5. A Chinese doctor who once worked at a hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School is now raising awareness of pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disorder, in China's Gansu Province. Cao Yunshan used to work at Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned to Gansu in 2016, working to promote diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary circulation diseases. SOUNDBITE (English): CAO YUNSHAN, Cardiologist, Gansu Provincial Hospital "Particularly I focus on fibrosing mediastinitis-caused pulmonary hypertension, which is also a rare and fatal disease. For fibrosing mediastinitis-caused pulmonary hypertension, it is common to be mis- and under-diagnosed. So, in order to improve the abilit

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Former Komeito chief Ishida dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Former Komeito party chairman Koshiro Ishida, who helped establish a coalition government in 1993 which put a temporary end to the Liberal Democratic Party's nearly four-decade monopoly on power, died of pulmonary fibrosis at a hospital in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 18, his family said. He was 76. (Kyodo)

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Jiri Denner, pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients

Jiri Denner, Director of Czech MICo Group (not pictured) introduces CoroVent - pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients in Trebic, Czech Republic, April 22, 2020. MICo Group starts producing COROVENT in huge quantities to save lives of patients with coronavirus. (CTK Photo/Libor Plihal)

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Jiri Denner, pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients

Jiri Denner, Director of Czech MICo Group (right) introduces CoroVent - pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients in Trebic, Czech Republic, April 22, 2020. MICo Group starts producing COROVENT in huge quantities to save lives of patients with coronavirus. (CTK Photo/Libor Plihal)

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Jiri Denner, pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients

Jiri Denner, Director of Czech MICo Group introduces CoroVent - pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients in Trebic, Czech Republic, April 22, 2020. MICo Group starts producing COROVENT in huge quantities to save lives of patients with coronavirus. (CTK Photo/Libor Plihal)

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pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients

Jiri Denner, Director of Czech MICo Group (not pictured) introduces CoroVent - pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients in Trebic, Czech Republic, April 22, 2020. MICo Group starts producing COROVENT in huge quantities to save lives of patients with coronavirus. (CTK Photo/Libor Plihal)

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pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients

Jiri Denner, Director of Czech MICo Group (not pictured) introduces CoroVent - pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients in Trebic, Czech Republic, April 22, 2020. MICo Group starts producing COROVENT in huge quantities to save lives of patients with coronavirus. (CTK Photo/Libor Plihal)

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Jiri Denner, pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients

Jiri Denner, Director of Czech MICo Group introduces CoroVent - pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients in Trebic, Czech Republic, April 22, 2020. MICo Group starts producing COROVENT in huge quantities to save lives of patients with coronavirus. (CTK Photo/Libor Plihal)

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Pioneering lung transplant recipient leaves hospital

OSAKA, Japan - A man (R), who received Japan's first transplant of both lungs from a brain-dead donor, holds a news conference with doctors at Osaka University Hospital on May 18 before leaving the hospital the same day. The man in his 30s, whose name was withheld, suffered from pulmonary hypertension. He said, ''It is like a dream that I can walk outside on my own feet. I feel happy to be alive.''