Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily curable condition: diarrhea. There's a simple and effective treatment: mixing oral rehydration salts — which are basically a mix of sugar and ...

Young children in India who suffer from life-threatening diarrhea frequently are given ineffective treatments because health providers misperceive the wishes of a child’s caregiver, according to a ...

Dr. Richard Cash, who played a key role in the testing and implementation of an inexpensive and easy treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases that has saved tens of millions of lives, died ...

A new study seeks to find the reasons that health-care personnel avoid the easy treatment for this potentially life-threatening condition. Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily ...

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