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

His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something so simple that people can be trained ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something ... Working on a project to teach people how to make their own rehydration solution, Chowdhury and Cash visited ...