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.

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 ...

Jet lag is a common travel nuisance that can turn an exciting journey into an exhausting ordeal. It occurs when there’s a mismatch between your internal body clock and the new time zone you’re in.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.