The human lungs are the organs of respiration. Humans have two lungs, a right lung and a left lung. The right lung consists of three lobes while the left lung is slightly smaller consisting of only two lobes. Together, the lungs contain approximately 2,400 kilometres of airways and 300 to 500 million alveoli. Estimates of the total surface area of lungs vary from 30-50 square metres up to 70-100 square metres in adults — which might be roughly the same area as one side of a tennis court. However, such estimates may be of limited use unless qualified by a statement of scale at which they are taken. Furthermore, if all of the capillaries that surround the alveoli were unwound and laid end to end, they would extend for about 992 kilometres. The lungs together weigh approximately 1.3 kilograms, with the right lung weighing more than the left. The pleural cavity is the potential space between the two serous membranes, of the lungs; the parietal pleura, lining the inner wall of the thoracic cage, and the visceral pleura, lining the organs themselves–the lungs. The respiratory system includes the conducting zone, which is part of the respiratory tract, that conducts air into the lungs.
Cancer Prevention & Cure Ltd
Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
The Group's principal activity is to produce pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The operations are carried out through the following divisions: Pharmaceuticals; Bio chemical; Chemicals; Food and Other. Pharmaceuticals include ethical drugs, bulk pharmaceuticals and biological research. Bio chemicals deal with biochemical diagnostic reagents, animal health products, agrochemicals and fertilizers. Chemicals includes solvents, plasticizes and their raw materials, detergent raw materials and specialty chemicals. Food includes alcoholic beverages, alcohol, seasonings, confectionery, baking ingredients and processed foods. Others include wholesale, commodity distribution and installation of facilities.
Fertilizer
Agrochemical
Raw material
Botanical drug
Herb
Solvent
Alcohol
Seasoning
Drug
Diagnostic Reagent
Sewage
Pest control
Teijin Ltd. engages in the management of its group companies that are involved in the environment and energy, safety and protection, information and electronics, transportation, and healthcare businesses. It operates through the following segments: Materials, Healthcare, and Others. The Materials segment handles the manufacture and sale of polyester, aramid, and carbon fiber products as well as plastic and resin products from polycarbonate resin and polyester film. The Healthcare segment deals with the manufacture and sale of pharmaceuticals and home medical equipment. It also provides home healthcare services. The Others segment offers information technology services. The company was founded by Seita Kumura, Itsuzo Hata, and Naokichi Kaneko on June 17, 1918 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.
Synthetic rubber
Chemical engineering
Polycarbonate
Polyester
Composite material
Fiber
Polymer
Engineering plastic
Aramid
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer
Medical equipment
Fiber-reinforced composite
Electronics
Thermoplastic
C-reactive protein
Bioplastic
Polylactic acid
Textile
Potential evaporation
Polyethylene
The General Hospital Corp.
http://www.massgeneral.org
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Massachusetts General Hospital was established to provide care to Boston's sick, regardless of socioeconomic status—an innovative idea in 1811. In the words of their founder, John Warren, MD, “When in distress, every man becomes their neighbor.” They subsequently became the first teaching hospital for Harvard University’s new medical school and have been redefining excellence in healthcare ever since. They have remained at the forefront of medicine by fostering a culture of collaboration, pushing the boundaries of medical research, educating the brightest medical minds and maintaining an unwavering commitment to the diverse community they were created to serve.
They believe that because of diversity they excel, through inclusion they respect their community, and with a keen focus on equity they serve, heal, educate and innovate at the highest levels. Their first priority is the well-being of their patients—near and far. As a team they are able to maintain a singular focus on providing the highest quality, most compassionate care to each and every patient.
Vascular Medicine
Digestive disorder
Subspecialty
Heart disease
Surgery
Aradigm is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of a portfolio of drugs delivered by inhalation for the treatment of severe respiratory diseases by pulmonologists. The Company has product candidates addressing the treatment of bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, inhalation tularemia and anthrax infections, and smoking cessation.
Pharmacy
Bronchodilator
Pulmonologists
Inhaler
Metered-dose inhaler
Inhalation
Dry-powder inhaler
Respiratory disease
Drug
Nebulizer
Fever drug
Medical ventilator
Oxygen concentrator
Clinical trial
Infection drug
Drug-eluting stent
Drug development
Drug discovery
Orphan drug
Bronchiectasis
Shanghai Chest Hospital
http://www.shmtppp.com/hospitals/chest
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Shanghai Chest Hospital is a Chinese company ultimately controlled by the Government of China. The firm specializes in treating cadio-vascular system, lungs, esophagus, trachea and mediastinum.
Esophagus
Lung
Cancer immunotherapy
Immunotherapy
Monoclonal antibody
Oncology drugs
Mediastinum
Wilms Tumor Protein
China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co. Ltd.
http://www.ynzy-tobacco.com
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China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co. Ltd. is a company headquartered in China ultimately controlled by the Government of China. The firm manufactures tobacco products.
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
https://www.bostonscientific.com
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Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used principally to treat cardiovascular disease.
Medical equipment
Cloud computing
Software as a service
Picture archiving and communication system
Fog computing
Cloud computing security
Software-defined networking
Internet of Things
Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp.
http://www.asahikasei-pharma.co.jp
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Part of Asahi Kasei Corp., Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. is a Japanese company located in Tokyo that functions as an alternative investment manager. The firm was founded in 2003.\nThe company says this about itself: Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a research-based health care innovator that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceuticals and diagnostic products. Asahi Kasei Pharma is a wholly owned business unit of Asahi Kasei Corporation, a US $20 billion technology company, that provides innovative, science-based solutions to a diverse range of markets including healthcare, chemicals and fibers, housing and construction materials, and electronics.
Diagnostic Reagent
Transdermal patch
Medicine
Nephrotic syndrome
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
Spiration, Inc.
https://svs.olympusamerica.com
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Spiration, Inc., doing business as Olympus Respiratory America, develops medical devices for the treatment of air leaks and lung diseases. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Redmond, Washington. As of 2010, Spiration, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Olympus America Inc.
Air leak
Medical equipment
Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
http://med.tongji.edu.cn/english/article.asp?article_id=6219&category_id=2098&root_id=2
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Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, a subsidiary of Tongji University, is a Chinese company located in Shanghai that provides medical services.
Philadelphia Health & Education Corp.
Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on developing and commercializing a therapeutic treatment for asthma in the United States. The company has developed a technology that is designed to deliver controlled thermal energy to the airways of adult patients to reduce the mass of airway smooth muscle in a procedure called Bronchial Thermoplasty. Asthmatx offers an interventional medical device, called the Alair System, for the bronchoscopic treatment of patients with moderate to severe asthma.
Asthmatx was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. As of October 26, 2010, Asthmatx operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of [Boston Scientific](/organization/boston-scientific).
Medical equipment
Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Bronchial thermoplasty
Airway smooth muscle
Airway
Thermal energy
Insect Biotechnology, Inc.
Broncus Technologies, Inc.
Broncus Technologies is a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing innovative solutions for lung diseases. With LungPoint, physicians plan bronchoscopic procedures and navigate to locations in the lungs accurately and quickly. Its line of Yield catheters are used to obtain tissue samples and detect blood vessels. Its patented treatment method, Airway Bypass using Exhale® Drug-Eluting Stents, is being investigated to determine if it can provide the first minimally-invasive treatment option for homogeneous, or diffuse, emphysema, the form of the disease experienced by the majority of emphysema patients.
Medical equipment
Lung
Respiratory disease
Pulmonary medicine
Bronchitis
Pulmonary embolism
Endoscopy
Endoscope
Asthma
Cystic fibrosis
Bronchoscopy
Laparoscopy
Pulmonologist
Lung Disorder
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.
Medicine
Biopharmaceutical
Darapladib
Inhalation anthrax
Albiglutide
Raxibacumab
Monoclonal antibody
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Tocilizumab
Rituximab
Antibody-drug conjugate
Enzyme
Oncology drugs
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Vasculitis
Toll-like receptor
Chemokine receptor
Anakinra
Leflunomide
DSM IP Assets BV, a subsidiary of Koninklijke DSM NV, is a company headquartered in Heerlen, the Netherlands, that develops and produces nutrition, pharmacy & material science products.
Nutrition
Pharmacy
Chemical engineering
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul National University Hospital (서울대학교병원) is one of the oldest and biggest hospitals in South Korea. It is a general and teaching hospital of Seoul National University's College of Medicine. Except SNUH Healthcare System Gangnam Center, all branches have an emergency department (ED).
Emergency department
Telemetry
Antigen-presenting cell
Investigational device exemption
Natural killer cell
Respiratory monitoring
Apomorphine
Safinamide
Travatan Z
Maternal-fetal medicine
Family planning
Prenatal care
Neonatology
Levodopa
Medical robot
Obstetrics
Active ingredient
Gynecology
Gyrus ACMI, Inc. (doing business as Olympus Surgical Technologies America), part of Olympus Corp., is an American company located in Southborough, MA, that manufactures and sells precision machineries & instruments.
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