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.

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 ...

Objective To maintain appropriate hydration status in such situation, it expects to be suitable for fluid replacement to drink oral rehydration solutions (ORS) which have higher sodium concentration ...

No regrets! Participating in the research that led to Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) brought Harvard science into the far-flung villages of the Ganges delta. This solution of several salts and ...

ORS - or oral rehydration solution - came in those tiny packets and worked every single time when there was a need. Unlike other medicines, I actually did not mind ORS at all. It had no unusual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...