Once developed to treat dehydration in children, Pedialyte has gained popularity among adults. Whether it's being used to ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1960s, Richard, along with fellow US doctor David Nalin, conducted the first clinical trials of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) in cholera patients, marking the start of a medical ...