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

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 ...

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 ...

Moderate forms of dehydration can be treated with safe and cost-effective oral rehydration therapy. ORT is contraindicated in cases of shock, extreme dehydration, coma, acute abdomen, or absence ...

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But its simplicity was crucial to its monumental impact. That simple solution—the cornerstone of Oral Rehydration Therapy, or ORT—has proved extraordinary in staving off and reversing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. By Clay Risen Richard A. Cash, who as a young ...