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 ...

Healthcare providers’ assumptions about patient preferences drive underutilization of lifesaving oral hydration salts (ORS) in treating childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ...

The PRoRota-project will use probiotics, improved education in hygiene and advanced mathematical models to prevent children ...

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 ...

The "stomach bug," often used synonymously with "the stomach flu," is not caused by a bug and has nothing to do with the influenza virus. Rather, in the vast majority of cases in children, it is ...