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Medecins Du Monde Set Up Accomodations For Migrants - Briancon

A doctor examines the lungs of a Moroccan exile who has respiratory problems using a stethoscope, France, Briancon, May 19, 2024. Medecins du Monde maintains a permanent presence at the Terrasses Solidaires de Briancon, a reception area for migrants who have just crossed the Italian border via the Montgenevre pass. Photo by Thibaut Durand/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Medecins Du Monde Set Up Accomodations For Migrants - Briancon

A doctor examines the lungs of a Moroccan exile who has respiratory problems using a stethoscope, France, Briancon, May 19, 2024. Medecins du Monde maintains a permanent presence at the Terrasses Solidaires de Briancon, a reception area for migrants who have just crossed the Italian border via the Montgenevre pass. Photo by Thibaut Durand/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Medecins du Monde Help Exiles - Briancon

The doctor listens to the lungs of an exile using a stethoscope, France on May 11, 2023. Medecins du Monde provides medical follow-up to exiles arriving from Italy via the Alpine passes and who find at Refuge Solidaire a place of welcome where they can rest and take a break for a few days. Photo by Thibaut Durand /ABACAPRESS.COM

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Medecins du Monde Help Exiles - Briancon

The doctor listens to the lungs of an exile using a stethoscope, France on May 11, 2023. Medecins du Monde provides medical follow-up to exiles arriving from Italy via the Alpine passes and who find at Refuge Solidaire a place of welcome where they can rest and take a break for a few days. Photo by Thibaut Durand /ABACAPRESS.COM

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Unique shouting contest held in southwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - A man with his child screams at the top of his lungs at the 40th "Beef eating and shouting contest" at a hot spring resort in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2014. At the unique annual event, participants take turns shouting out what is on their minds after a scrumptious meal of barbequed local beef at a mountain meadow.

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Transplant of organs from minor

SENDAI, Japan - A medical team arrives at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on a chartered flight on April 13, 2011, carrying a cooler box containing lungs for transplant harvested from a minor who was declared brain dead the previous day. It was the first case in which a child aged under 15 has been declared brain dead with family consent in Japan. The airport in northeastern Japan partially resumed domestic flights the same day after the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Organs removed brain-dead man

OKAYAMA, Japan - Medical staff carry a cooler box containing lungs removed from a brain-dead man with the sole consent of his family at Okayama University Hospital in Okayama on Aug. 10, 2010. The organs of the man were transplanted to five patients in the absence of a written declaration by him, marking the first case of such an organ donation since a legal revision approved them in July. (Pool photo)

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Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OKAYAMA, Japan - Members of the medical team that will harvest lungs from a brain-dead man, whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing, depart the Okayama University Hospital in the city of Okayama on August 9. 2010. The family's approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law.

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan successfully held

SUITA, Japan - Osaka University professor Yoshiki Sawa speaks at a news conference at the hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, after successfully completing the first combined transplantation of a heart and lungs in Japan using organs from a man who had been certified as brain dead.

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan starts in Osaka

KOBE, Japan - Doctors transport a cool box containing the heart and lungs removed from a man in his 30s, who had been certified as brain dead on Jan. 16 at Hyogo Emergency Medical Center in Kobe, to Osaka University Hospital on Jan. 17.

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Irabu announces he is joining Hanshin Tigers

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Right-hander Hideki Irabu (L) shakes hands with the Hanshin Tigers manager Senichi Hoshino in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 10, in announcing his joining the Japanese Central League team. Irabu was released by the Texas Rangers last month following a season cut short by blood clots in his lungs.

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Texas' Irabu hospitalized with chest pains

MISSOURI, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Hideki Irabu (file photo) was hospitalized July 15 after experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath at a Kansas City hotel in Missouri, baseball sources said. The sources said Irabu, who is in Missouri for a series of games with the Kansas City Royals, underwent emergency treatment at a hospital after small blood clots were discovered in the arteries of his lungs. (MLB)

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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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China safeguards Earth's lungs along with world

STORY: China safeguards Earth's lungs along with world DATELINE: March 21, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:59 LOCATION: ANHUI, BRUSSELS CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of forest in China and Belgium 2. STANDUP 1 (English): WANG HAIYUE, Xinhua Correspondent 3. STANDUP 2 (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua Correspondent 4. STANDUP 3 (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua Correspondent STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): WANG HAIYUE, Xinhua Correspondent "I'm now in Miaoshou forest farm, an area that completed the first forestry carbon sink trading in east China's Anhui Province. The thriving Chinese yew around me is one of the carbon sink trees here. Through the carbon sink trading, the carbon dioxide absorbed by these trees have become products and will help achieving a balance between environmental protection and economic development." SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JIANG YULONG, Head of the Miaoshou forest farm "We developed 151.4 hectares of carbon sink forest for the first time. Last year, we sold 3,036 tons of carbon sinks to

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Former South Africa President Fw De Klerk Announces He Has Cancer

According to a statement on the de Klerk Foundations website, the former South African president and Nobel Prize winner has been diagnosed with mesothelioma a cancer that affects the tissue that lines the lungs --- File --- Former South African president Frederik de Klerk and his wife Marike Willemse seen at 'solidarnosc' conference marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa Nobel Prize, in Gdansk, Poland on December 6, 2008. Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Abd Rabbo Ammar/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Former South Africa President Fw De Klerk Announces He Has Cancer

According to a statement on the de Klerk Foundations website, the former South African president and Nobel Prize winner has been diagnosed with mesothelioma a cancer that affects the tissue that lines the lungs --- File --- Former South African president Frederik de Klerk and his wife Marike Willemse seen at 'solidarnosc' conference marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa Nobel Prize, in Gdansk, Poland on December 6, 2008. Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Abd Rabbo Ammar/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Former South Africa President Fw De Klerk Announces He Has Cancer

According to a statement on the de Klerk Foundations website, the former South African president and Nobel Prize winner has been diagnosed with mesothelioma a cancer that affects the tissue that lines the lungs --- File --- Nobel Peace Prize 1993 Frederik Willem de Klerk attending the 9th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, held at the Hotel de Ville of Paris, France, on December 11, 2008. Photo by Malkon/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Malkon/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Former South Africa President Fw De Klerk Announces He Has Cancer

According to a statement on the de Klerk Foundations website, the former South African president and Nobel Prize winner has been diagnosed with mesothelioma a cancer that affects the tissue that lines the lungs --- File --- Former South African president Frederik de Klerk and his wife Marike Willemse seen at 'solidarnosc' conference marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa Nobel Prize, in Gdansk, Poland on December 6, 2008. Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Abd Rabbo Ammar/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan starts in Osaka

KOBE, Japan - Doctors transport a cool box containing the heart and lungs removed from a man in his 30s, who had been certified as brain dead on Jan. 16 at Hyogo Emergency Medical Center in Kobe, to Osaka University Hospital on Jan. 17. (Kyodo)

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan successfully held

SUITA, Japan - Osaka University professor Yoshiki Sawa speaks at a news conference at the hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, after successfully completing the first combined transplantation of a heart and lungs in Japan using organs from a man who had been certified as brain dead. (Kyodo)

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Texas' Irabu hospitalized with chest pains

MISSOURI, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Hideki Irabu (file photo) was hospitalized July 15 after experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath at a Kansas City hotel in Missouri, baseball sources said. The sources said Irabu, who is in Missouri for a series of games with the Kansas City Royals, underwent emergency treatment at a hospital after small blood clots were discovered in the arteries of his lungs. (MLB)

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Snow White And The Three Stoog - film (1961)

Larry Fine, Curly-Joe Derita & Moe Howard Characters: Larry, & Moe Film: Snow White And The Three Stooges (USA 1961) Director: Walter Lang 26 May 1961 Date: 26-May-61

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Air pollution in Beijing

High-rise buildings are vaguely seen in Beijing on Oct. 17, 2015, as the Chinese capital was blanketed by heavy smog. Levels of PM2.5 particulates -- small enough to deeply penetrate the lungs -- marked 345 micrograms per cubic meter, according to the website of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OKAYAMA, Japan - Members of the medical team that will harvest lungs from a brain-dead man, whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing, depart the Okayama University Hospital in the city of Okayama on August 9. 2010. The family's approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law. (Kyodo)

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Organs removed brain-dead man

OKAYAMA, Japan - Medical staff carry a cooler box containing lungs removed from a brain-dead man with the sole consent of his family at Okayama University Hospital in Okayama on Aug. 10, 2010. The organs of the man were transplanted to five patients in the absence of a written declaration by him, marking the first case of such an organ donation since a legal revision approved them in July. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Transplant of organs from minor

SENDAI, Japan - A medical team arrives at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on a chartered flight on April 13, 2011, carrying a cooler box containing lungs for transplant harvested from a minor who was declared brain dead the previous day. It was the first case in which a child aged under 15 has been declared brain dead with family consent in Japan. The airport in northeastern Japan partially resumed domestic flights the same day after the March 11 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Unique shouting contest held in southwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - A man with his child screams at the top of his lungs at the 40th "Beef eating and shouting contest" at a hot spring resort in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2014. At the unique annual event, participants take turns shouting out what is on their minds after a scrumptious meal of barbequed local beef at a mountain meadow. (Kyodo)

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vaccination, COVID-19, coronavirus, transplant

Patient with transplanted lungs receives vaccine against COVID-19 at the Motol University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, December 29, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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vaccination, COVID-19, coronavirus, transplant

Patient with transplanted lungs receives vaccine against COVID-19 at the Motol University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, December 29, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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vaccination, COVID-19, coronavirus, transplant

Patient with transplanted lungs receives vaccine against COVID-19 at the Motol University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, December 29, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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vaccination, COVID-19, coronavirus, transplant

Patient with transplanted lungs, right, waits before the vaccination against COVID-19 at the Motol University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, December 29, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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New coronavirus

Fujita Health University Professor Osamu Nishida explains how to use a medical device called an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, at the hospital affiliated with the medical school in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on April 3, 2020. The device substitutes the function of a patient's lungs and heart by allowing the blood to bypass the organs, providing them time to rest and recover. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken at an intensive care unit at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on April 3, 2020, shows a medical device called an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, which substitutes the function of a patient's lungs and heart by allowing the blood to bypass the organs, providing them time to rest and recover. Demand for the equipment is rapidly growing amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Unique shouting contest held in southwestern Japan

A man screams at the top of his lungs at the "Beef eating and shouting contest" at a mountain meadow in the hot spring resort of Yufu in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 9, 2017. At the unique annual event, participants take turns shouting out what is on their minds after a meal of barbequed local beef. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plutonium found in lungs of worker at nuclear facility

Officials of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 7, 2017, after finding one worker inhaled a large amount of plutonium. He was among five workers exposed to radioactive materials at a nuclear research facility near Tokyo the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Irabu announces he is joining Hanshin Tigers

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Right-hander Hideki Irabu (L) shakes hands with the Hanshin Tigers manager Senichi Hoshino in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 10, in announcing his joining the Japanese Central League team. Irabu was released by the Texas Rangers last month following a season cut short by blood clots in his lungs. (Kyodo)

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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.''