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.

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 ...

Cash conducted field studies proving that oral rehydration therapy is effective; a study conducted years later showed an ...

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.

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 ...

DHAKA, Oct 24, 2024 (BSS) - Dr. Richard Cash, co-developer of the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), passed away on 22 October ...

Late Richard Alan Cash, a visionary American global health researcher, public health physician, and internist, first forged ...

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