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25-577: After the establishment of the city of Helwan baths for sulfur springs there, medical tourism spread and increased in Helwan. This led to the emergence of many therapeutic centers and institutions there, such as the Al-Hayat Hotel and the Grand Hammamet Hotel. In 1940, she founded Bahman Psychiatric Hospital, which is one of the largest and leading medical centers for psychological care and education in

50-605: A flawed model of care lacking holistic circumspection —merely treating discrete problems (in billable increments) rather than maintaining health. Therapy and treatment , in the middle of the semantic field, can connote either the holism of care or the discreteness of intervention , with context conveying the intent in each use. Accordingly, they can be used in both noncount and count senses (for example, therapy for chronic kidney disease can involve several dialysis treatments per week ). The words aceology and iamatology are obscure and obsolete synonyms referring to

75-461: A white, tan, or cream-colored appearance and often has a fibrous or concentric 'grain'. Another type of spring water deposit, containing siliceous as well as calcareous minerals, is known as tufa . Tufa is similar to travertine but is even softer and more porous. Chaybeate springs may deposit iron compounds such as limonite . Some such deposits were large enough to be mined as iron ore . Therapeutic A therapy or medical treatment

100-450: Is a gas, and it usually enters the body when it is breathed in. The quantities ingested in drinking water are much lower and are not considered likely to cause harm, but few studies on long-term, low-level exposure have been done, as of 2003 . The water of mineral springs is sometimes claimed to have therapeutic value. Mineral spas are resorts that have developed around mineral springs, where (often wealthy) patrons would repair to "take

125-479: Is a specific type of prioritization by lines of therapy. It is controversial in American health care because unlike conventional decision-making about what constitutes first-line, second-line, and third-line therapy, which in the U.S. reflects safety and efficacy first and cost only according to the patient's wishes, step therapy attempts to mix cost containment by someone other than the patient (third-party payers) into

150-401: Is also called polychemotherapy, whereas chemotherapy with one agent at a time is called single-agent therapy or monotherapy. Adjuvant therapy is therapy given in addition to the primary, main, or initial treatment, but simultaneously (as opposed to second-line therapy). Neoadjuvant therapy is therapy that is begun before the main therapy. Thus one can consider surgical excision of a tumor as

175-447: Is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis . Both words, treatment and therapy , are often abbreviated tx , Tx , or T x . As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications . There are many different types of therapy. Not all therapies are effective . Many therapies can produce unwanted adverse effects . Treatment and therapy are often synonymous, especially in

200-460: Is the first therapy that will be tried. Its priority over other options is usually either: (1) formally recommended on the basis of clinical trial evidence for its best-available combination of efficacy, safety, and tolerability or (2) chosen based on the clinical experience of the physician. If a first-line therapy either fails to resolve the issue or produces intolerable side effects , additional (second-line) therapies may be substituted or added to

225-563: The Middle East in Cairo in Egypt, specifically Helwan, and one of the most prominent hospitals that provides health care in the field of psychiatry. It is the first private psychiatric hospital in Egypt, making it the oldest in Egypt. The hospital began with twelve beds for patients, and in 1964, the hospital expanded to include one hundred and ten beds, and later reached two hundred and fifty beds. Choosing

250-430: The chemical composition of the water produced and according to the medicinal benefits supposedly accruing from each: Types of sedimentary rock – usually limestone ( calcium carbonate ) – are sometimes formed by the evaporation , or rapid precipitation , of minerals from spring water as it emerges, especially at the mouths of hot mineral springs. In cold mineral springs, the rapid precipitation of minerals results from

275-424: The field of psychiatry. Other branches of the hospital are spread throughout the Middle East. Services provided by the hospital include general adult psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, substance abuse clinic, psychological services, learning disabilities, and sleep disorders. After the death of Omar Sharif the hospital was accused of not developing a good treatment plan for him, which

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300-594: The first-line therapy for a certain type and stage of cancer even though radiotherapy is used before it; the radiotherapy is neoadjuvant (chronologically first but not primary in the sense of the main event). Premedication is conceptually not far from this, but the words are not interchangeable; cytotoxic drugs to put a tumor "on the ropes" before surgery delivers the "knockout punch" are called neoadjuvant chemotherapy, not premedication, whereas things like anesthetics or prophylactic antibiotics before dental surgery are called premedication. Step therapy or stepladder therapy

325-743: The hospital as a cooperative center for the World Health Organization in 1973 The hospital's training system was approved by the Arab Council of Psychiatry in 1997. Accredited as a training center by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1999, with experience gained here counting towards passing the UK MRCPsych exam. The hospital was included in the Department of Psychiatry at Wayne State University, Michigan, USA, in 2000 for its many contributions to

350-415: The news of his death, that the international artist had been admitted to the hospital about a month before his death after his health condition had declined significantly, but he did not improve, and quite the opposite happened. He remained in continuous deterioration during the last ten days, abstaining from taking any food. Food or drink until his death. After her mother died, Najwa Salem (Egyptian Actress)

375-418: The provider of such care is soon finished). In contrast, the word intervention tends to be specific and concrete, and thus the word is often countable ; for example, one instance of cardiac catheterization is one intervention performed, and coronary care (noncount) can require a series of interventions (count). At the extreme, the piling on of such countable interventions amounts to interventionism ,

400-535: The reduction of acidity when the CO 2 gas bubbles out. (These mineral deposits can also be found in dried lakebeds.) Spectacular formations, including terraces, stalactites , stalagmites and 'frozen waterfalls' can result (see, for example, Mammoth Hot Springs ). One light-colored porous calcite of this type is known as travertine and has been used extensively in Italy and elsewhere as building material. Travertine can have

425-689: The study of therapies. The English word therapy comes via Latin therapīa from Ancient Greek : θεραπεία and literally means "curing" or "healing". The term therapeusis is a somewhat archaic doublet of the word therapy . Levels of care classify health care into categories of chronology, priority, or intensity, as follows: Treatment decisions often follow formal or informal algorithmic guidelines. Treatment options can often be ranked or prioritized into lines of therapy : first-line therapy , second-line therapy , third-line therapy , and so on. First-line therapy (sometimes referred to as induction therapy , primary therapy , or front-line therapy )

450-534: The treatment regimen, followed by third-line therapies, and so on. An example of a context in which the formalization of treatment algorithms and the ranking of lines of therapy is very extensive is chemotherapy regimens . Because of the great difficulty in successfully treating some forms of cancer, one line after another may be tried. In oncology the count of therapy lines may reach 10 or even 20. Often multiple therapies may be tried simultaneously ( combination therapy or polytherapy). Thus combination chemotherapy

475-530: The usage of health professionals . However, in the context of mental health , the term therapy may refer specifically to psychotherapy . The words care , therapy , treatment , and intervention overlap in a semantic field , and thus they can be synonymous depending on context . Moving rightward through that order, the connotative level of holism decreases and the level of specificity (to concrete instances) increases. Thus, in health-care contexts (where its senses are always noncount ),

500-410: The water's taste. Mineral water obtained from mineral springs, and the precipitated salts such as Epsom salt have long been important commercial products. Some mineral springs may contain significant amounts of harmful dissolved minerals, such as arsenic , and should not be drunk. Sulfur springs smell of rotten eggs due to hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), which is hazardous and sometimes deadly . It

525-596: The waters" — meaning that they would drink (see hydrotherapy and water cure ) or bathe in (see balneotherapy ) the mineral water. Historical mineral springs were often outfitted with elaborate stone-works — including artificial pools, retaining walls , colonnades , and roofs — sometimes in the form of fanciful "Greek temples", gazebos , or pagodas . Others were entirely enclosed within spring houses . For many centuries, in Europe, North America, and elsewhere, commercial proponents of mineral springs classified them according to

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550-404: The word care tends to imply a broad idea of everything done to protect or improve someone's health (for example, as in the terms preventive care and primary care , which connote ongoing action), although it sometimes implies a narrower idea (for example, in the simplest cases of wound care or postanesthesia care , a few particular steps are sufficient, and the patient's interaction with

575-540: Was admitted to Bahman Hospital to receive treatment, as she needed psychological support. Official website Sulfur springs Mineral springs are naturally occurring springs that produce hard water , water that contains dissolved minerals . Salts , sulfur compounds , and gases are among the substances that can be dissolved in the spring water during its passage underground. In this they are unlike sweet springs , which produce soft water with no noticeable dissolved gasses. The dissolved minerals may alter

600-449: Was denied by the hospital administration. It explained that Al-Sharif had reached an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease, which was difficult to treat during that period, and did not announce the causes of his death. The most famous stay of the international artist Omar Sharif in its last days was undergoing treatment for Alzheimer's disease, which struck him a year ago and reached an advanced stage that made it difficult to treat, and he

625-437: Was in the psychiatric hospital for at least more than three months. The only person who met him was his only son, Tariq, and his friend, Dr. Zahi Hawass, the famous archaeologist. However, when he died there, the hospital refused to provide any information about him or the causes of his death and his last days, as it considered the patient's file to be like military secrets, which no one may see. Zahi Hawass stated when announcing

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