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

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 ...

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other ...

In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration ...

Richard A. Cash died on Oct. 22 at his Cambridge home after an eight-month battle with brain cancer. He was 83.

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) ...

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 diarrhea — is something so simple that people can be trained to do it at home.