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 ...
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 ...