NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Announces First Pollin Prize in Pediatric Research Recognizing Developers of Revolutionary Oral Rehydration Therapy; 'Most Important Medical Discovery of 20th Century'.

-- Saves Millions of Children's Lives Annually Worldwide

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research, the sole international award for advances in children's health care, has been awarded to four clinician-scientists who made seminal contributions to the discovery and implementation of a simple, inexpensive, and dramatically effective therapy to combat one of the most common life-threatening pediatric illnesses-infectious diarrhea.

The recipients of the 2002 First Pollin Prize are: Norbert Hirschhorn, MD, Consultant, Yale/World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Health Promotion Policy and Research, Yale University School of Medicine; Dilip Mahalanabis, MBBS, Director, Society for Applied Studies, Calcutta, India; David R. Nalin, MD, FACP, Merck Vaccine Division, Merck & Co.; and Nathaniel F. Pierce, MD, Professor of International Health and Disease Prevention Control and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg …