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

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.

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.

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

In 2006, a Cochrane Review noted that there was "weak and unreliable evidence regarding the clinical effectiveness and safety of antiemetics prescribed for children with vomiting due to AGE".

At a time when diarrhoeal diseases claimed lives of one in five children in Bangladesh, Cash co-developed Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), a breakthrough treatment that has saved millions of lives ...

Labour’s “trans inclusive” ban on conversion therapy risks “criminalising” parents who do not want their children to transition, Sir Keir Starmer has been warned. A cross-party group of ...

Initial management of children with AGE complicated by vomiting should include consideration of oral ondansetron therapy as a means to avoid intravenous rehydration and hospital admission.

This therapy provides fluid through the mouth to prevent or correct dehydration ... According to the National Family Health Survey-5, only 60.6% of children receive oral rehydration salts for ...

Carlos paused, made eye contact, and transitioned to a different toy. Play Therapy for Children with Disabilities Source: AAMFT / Used with permission Play can serve as a primary therapeutic mode ...