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

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 ...

The recovery and survival rates were unprecedented and the treatment, known as Oral Rehydration Therapy, became the medical standard — credited by the World Health Organization and other groups ...

The two had already been researching a simple oral rehydration therapy and knew of other, previous efforts, all of which had failed. But they believed that the therapy held promise, especially in ...

Cash, a senior lecturer on global health at Harvard’s School of Public Health, had learned Bengali while developing oral rehydration therapy, a treatment for cholera that has saved millions of ...

from brain cancer this week, his wife by his side. He was 83. His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for ...

Honey might also be effective as part of oral rehydration therapy, as people with diarrhea could become easily dehydrated. It may be good for your brain! Studies suggest that honey may offer ...

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. By Clay Risen Richard A. Cash, who as a young ...

from brain cancer this week, his wife by his side. He was 83. His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something so simple that people can be trained to do it at home.

Richard Cash, co-developer of the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), passed away on October 22 in Boston at the age of 83, leaving behind a remarkable legacy of service and innovation that ...