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

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

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

An oral rehydration solution of sugar, salt and water, promoted by Dr. Cash and others, helped save more than 50 million lives since the 1970s.

Cash conducted field studies proving that oral rehydration therapy is effective; a study conducted years later showed an ...

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 ...

In response to the rising Cholera outbreaks affecting several states across the country, Reals Pharmaceutical Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical company, has donated hundreds of life-saving drugs to ...

Even as the temperatures rise and heat wave grips most parts of the country, the demand for Oral Rehydration Solution or ORS surges. According to doctors, ORS is a one-stop solution for ...

Richard Cash, co-developer of the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), passed away on October 22 in Boston at the age of 83, ...

As cold and flu season approaches, people face the challenge of keeping themselves—and, in the case of those who are parents, ...

For these patients, oral rehydration therapy is an intervention that should be initiated with the first signs and symptoms of AGE. Oral rehydration therapy should be based on the degree of ...

Management of the mild-to-moderately dehydrated pediatric patient should emphasize the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) based on the degree of clinical dehydration. The clinical dehydration ...