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The primary ones were organ-specific fascial mobilization also known as visceral manipulation; functional orthopedics with musculo-skeletal release techniques; and laser therapy.
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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The primary ones were organ-specific fascial mobilization also known as visceral manipulation; functional orthopedics with musculo-skeletal release techniques; and laser therapy.
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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One of the themes in cancer research is that the research itself is not so organ-specific.
Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, And Brian Williams Join For Stand Up To Cancer (VIDEO) 2010
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Why have we placed no value on being patient-centered in our current system, instead, choosing to accept the inordinate costs of invasive, highly aggressive organ-specific approaches removed from the patient's actual life and function in society?
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Movement As Medicine: Spinning And The Self-Care Movement 2010
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Why do insurance companies refuse coverage for what is fundamentally healing: medicine through movement and instead opt to cover what are largely intensely invasive, organ-specific interventional approaches?
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Movement As Medicine: Spinning And The Self-Care Movement 2010
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“Since pantyhose (or tights), as a garment, has about it nothing gender-specific (such as a panty that fits only the female body, or a bra that is ‘organ-specific’), there is no reason why people of either sex should think of it as a female-only piece of clothing in everyday life.”
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In this metaphor, racism, sexism, and homophobia are analogous to organ-specific cancers and rankism is the blanket malignancy analogous to cancer itself.
Robert Fuller: Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism 2009
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No one realized that lung, breast, and other organ-specific cancers all had their origins in cellular malfunction.
Robert Fuller: Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism 2009
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Progress against organ-specific malignancies was long hindered by the failure to recognize them all as sub-species of cancer.
Robert Fuller: Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other 2008
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The good news: "By following these subjects longitudinally, it has been seen that not only do the anti-gliadin antibodies and anti-endomysium antibodies disappear after 3 to 6 months of a gluten-free diet, but so do the organ-specific autoantibodies."
Archive 2006-06-01 GreenFertility 2006
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