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

At the time, it was well known that simply drinking water didn’t help. Cash and his colleagues had people drink water with ...

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

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 ...

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

Cash and his colleagues had people drink water with carefully chosen salts and sugar, and found that the formula allowed for successful rehydration. So long as people were conscious and could ...

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