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 ...

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

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

The recovery and survival rates were unprecedented and the treatment, known as Oral Rehydration Therapy, became the medical standard — credited by the World Health Organization and other groups ...

It was even later that I learned the story of ORS - also known as oral rehydration therapy or ORT. The story of its discovery is based in Dhaka in late 1960s during the repeated cholera outbreaks ...

Oral rehydration solutions made a crucial contribution to reducing the death rate, at 36.2% (1). Rehydration therapy of dehydrated infants and toddlers, using hypotonic oral rehydration solution ...

If you are dehydrated due to an illness that includes vomiting and/or diarrhea, consider using oral rehydration therapy (ORT) ...

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.

Richard Cash, co-developer of the Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), passed away on October 22 in Boston at the age of 83, leaving behind a remarkable legacy of service and innovation that ...