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Bayer Launches Kerendia for Chronic Kidney Disease

Drugmaker Bayer recently said it has introduced a medication for the treatment of chronic kidney disease related with diabetes under the brand name Kerendia. The drug is a non-steroidal, selective mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist designated for patients with chronic kidney disease associated with type 2 diabetes.

“The major focus of therapy in patients with chronic kidney disease and diabetes is to prevent end-stage renal disease or kidney failure. Despite therapy, these patients with chronic kidney disease associated with type 2 diabetes. Finerenone (Kerendia) therefore offers a new treatment approach for these vulnerable patients to slow down the progression of chronic kidney disease and reduce the risk of kidney failure,” said Bayer Pharma, Managing Director Manoj Saxena.

Around seventy-four million people suffer from diabetes in the country and this figure is likely to increase to ninety-three million by 2030. The number of people with diabetes in India is the second highest in the world, after China, as reported by the Economic Times.

SRM hospital gets Autism Centre of Excellence

Autism Centre of Excellence (ACE) was inaugurated by Founder Chancellor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology Dr. T. R. Paarivendhar at SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre (SRM MCH & RC), Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu. This centre offers children with autism all necessary services under one roof. This centre is also first-of-itskind in an Indian medical college hospital.

The centre has been launched by SRM College of Occupational Therapy. The mission of this centre is to make available all the indispensable services, such as occupational therapy, speech therapy, special education, and clinical psychology at one location with welltrained certified individuals.

Strong emphasis is laid on integrating them into regular classrooms and enabling them to live in competition with the community. Children with autism can obtain free rehabilitation services from SRM ACE. Through research in the fields of occupational therapy, speech therapy, special education, and clinical psychology, SRM-ACE will also promote innovation in autism intervention.

The occupational therapy services cover a wide range of therapeutic modalities, counting Sensory Integration through Playbased Intervention, Behavioural Modification, Social Skills Training, Group Therapy, Handwriting Intervention, and ADL training.

National Cancer Grid Establishes New Centre for Digital Oncology to improve Cancer Care

The National Cancer Grid (NCG) has established the Koita Centre for Digital Oncology (KCDO) to promote use of digital technologies and tools to improve cancer care across India. The Centre has been set up with the contributions received from the Koita Foundation, which will support it for five years. The Tata Memorial Centre and Koita Foundation formalized the collaboration by signing a MoU at the Tata

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Memorial Hospital in Mumbai recently.

KCDO will play an important role in driving digital transformation across the cancer care continuum. KCDO will support NCG hospitals in sharing best practices in digital health, adopting digital health tools, and driving many common technology initiatives including EMR adoption, healthcare data interoperability, reporting and analytics.

KCDO will also enable NCG and NCG hospitals pilot and adopt new technologies – including AI, machine learning, big data, automation, and cloud, mobile – which will benefit hospitals, doctors, patients and consumers. Embracing digital tools like telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will help make care more accessible especially in semi-urban and rural areas. AI-assisted clinical decision support tools will help improve doctors’ ability to provide better care, and mobile patient engagement apps will help patients with medication management and better compliance with care guidelines.

Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, commemorates 34 years of service with a pledge

Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, celebrated its 34th Anniversary recently. Doctors and employees who were part of the hospital since its inception were felicitated and congratulated for their contribution. Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, has emerged as one of the trusted integrated healthcare service providers in Asia.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group said that what has been achieved over the last 34 years has been briefly presented as milestones, milestones are the marking of one day’s achievement, but what you really achieved is that you touched the lives and hearts of so many families. It is that outstanding contribution to the society which stands out and sets the way, creates the light, shows the path, inspires others and for that I can only say a very big thank you, a great congratulations and most importantly wish you the strength, the energy, the inspiration and the courage to continue to take forward the legacy, because there is so much more to do.

She also added saying that let’s work to protect what is priceless, that’s what you all do every day, you are curing, you are saving and also focusing on prevention. What you do is not limited to India and Indian patients, but for patients from all over the world. Recently I was in Indonesia as a representative of the Indian Government as part of G24 Women and everyone there was well aware of Apollo Hospitals and its work and very appreciative of our extraordinary achievements in the healthcare domain.

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