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

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

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 ...

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.

Tamil Nadu declares heatwaves as State-specific disasters, offers ex-gratia for heat-related deaths, pioneering climate ...

Tamil Nadu government declares heatwaves a State-specific disaster, offering ex-gratia payments and relief measures for ...

The shaking may develop as a result of the impact of alcohol on the brain, or due to damage to other body systems that then ...

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

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.

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

During this time, he also carried out studies in Oral Rehydration Therapy at the John Hopkins University International Centre for Medical Research and Training in Kolkata. This therapy provides fluid ...