His treatment, developed with David Nalin, was elegant in its simplicity, which made it accessible to people and countries ...

In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration ...

DHAKA, Oct 24, 2024 (BSS) - Dr. Richard Cash, co-developer of the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), passed away on 22 October ...

With his long-time collaborator, David Nalin, Richard conducted the first clinical trials of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) ...

Richard A. Cash died on Oct. 22 at his Cambridge home after an eight-month battle with brain cancer. He was 83.

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other ...

Cash, who as a young public-health researcher in South Asia in the late 1960s showed that a simple cocktail of salt, sugar and clean water could check the ravages of cholera and other ...

known as Oral Rehydration Therapy, became the medical standard — credited by the World Health Organization and other groups for saving more than 50 million lives, including many children ...

Late Richard Alan Cash, a visionary American global health researcher, public health physician, and internist, first forged ...

His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something ... They were checking out a child survival program. It turned out to be a learning experience for Chowdhury ...