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

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

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 ...

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.

Pedialyte is formulated to help prevent dehydration and replenish fluids and electrolytes more effectively than common ...

I found him to be exactly opposite of that.” Working on a project to teach people how to make their own rehydration solution, Chowdhury and Cash visited a home where the people were so poor that ...

In response to the rising Cholera outbreaks affecting several states across the country, Reals Pharmaceutical Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical company, has donated hundreds of life-saving drugs to ...

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 ...