Our bodily stocks of sodium and potassium salts had become exhausted by sweat and all that extra water requiring trips to the toilet, so while we weren’t dehydrated in liquid terms we had ...

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

The ideal time to undertake a camel safari in the Sahara is between October and February when temperatures are more moderate.

Laila Soueif tells Tom Watling that UK foreign secretary David Lammy has failed to help her son despite spending years in ...

Alaa Abdel Fattah is Egypt’s best-known political prisoner. A blogger, writer and outspoken pro-democracy activist, he has ...

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

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 ...

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

Nadipalli village and six in Erukonda village in the mandalCollector along with medical and health and other officials visit ...