News

1. Better public awareness, physician training, and clear labelling on salt crucial to preventing hypertension, survey finds – The Hindu (30-Mar-2026)
2. World Kidney Day 2026 (10-MAR-2026)
3. Why are healthy young men in India being hit by a mystery kidney illness? (TOI – 27-08-25)
4. Workshop on Capacity Building of Physicians on Salt Reduction and Low Sodium Salt Substitute- Vijayawada (05-08-2025)
5. Workshop on Capacity Building of Physicians on Salt Reduction and Low Sodium Salt Substitute- Delhi (27-04-2025)
6. World Kidney Day 2025 – (11-MAR-2025)
7. Cross-blood transplant performed on a patient with Bombay blood – The Hindu – Science – (11-02-2025)
8. Doctors Perform Rare Bombay O Blood Group Kidney Transplant – (11-10-2024)
9. கல் உப்பு – பொடி உப்பு வேறுபாடு என்ன? உடலுக்கு எது நல்லது? – BBC News Tamil –(13-08-2024)
10. Workshop on capacity building of physicians on salt reduction and low sodium salt substitute-Chennai –(30-Jun-2024)
11. Pass UP the Salt Please – TOI – (20-MAR-2024)
12. World Kidney Day 2024 – (12-MAR-2024)
13. Low on SALT – Turning the spotlight on Kidney Donors – The Hindu –(02-NOV-2023)
14. நீண்ட நாள் வாழ … ! – Dinamani Tamil News Paper – Sunday Supplement –(22-OCT-2023)
15. Sapiens Silver Jubilee Function – 25th Anniversary Celebration of Sapiens Health Foundation – (11-MAR-2023)
16. A large study shows immense benefits of reducing salt intake – THE HINDU – (04-DEC-2022)
17. IIT Madras designed trial shows efficacy of Indomethacin Drug in treating hospitalised mild and moderate COVID-19 patients-(22-Apr-2022)
18. World Kidney Day – 2022 (11-Mar-2022)
19. World Kidney Day – 2021 (11-Mar-2021)
20. Study advances use of indomethacin for treatment of mild cases – THE HINDU (16-OCT-2020)
21. கொரோனா கால நெறிமுறைகள்- Amudhasurabi – Sep 2020
22. Is Immune Boosting a Myth or Reality?- THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE (31-Jul-2020)
23. What does COVID-19 mean for kidneys? – The Hindu (18-Mar-2020)
24. World Kidney Day  2020- (12-Mar-2020)
25. Essay Competition on ‘Salt in Diet and Health’- Prize Distribution – (Jan 10, 2020)
26. Rare Disease : Doctors want to give active ingredients in food ( Jan 4, 2020 – Times of India)
27. SALT – A Slow Poison – THE WEEK Magazine (07-Nov-2019)
28. Where salt pinches: campaign to cut salt intake – The Hindu- Mumbai (15-Mar-2019)
29. World Kidney Day 2019 –  (10-Mar-2019)
30. What to eat in 2019? – The Hindu Business Line – (02-Mar-2019)
31. New Year Resolution – “Avoid The Salt Shaker” – Launch Event (03-Jan-2019)
32. “It’s not a pinch of Salt”- The New Indian Express (1- Jan- 2019)
33. Amudhasurabhi – Tamil Magazine (Dec-2018)
34. World Kidney Day 2018(Mar-2018)
35. The Salt Fight – Conference on Salt Awareness(Nov-2017)
36. Doctors, IITs join hands to demand law to limit salt (22-Oct-2017)
37. Salt- Just a Pinch will do – A taste-enhancer that wreaks harm – The Hindu Business Line (13-Oct-2017)
38. World Kidney Day 2017(March-2017)
39. ‘Aquaholism’,caused by water glut, can be deadly – TOI (March-2016)
40. World Kidney Day 2016 (March-2016)
41. Drug-resistant pathogen – The Hindu (Nov-2015)
42. Organ Donation Day 2015 (Aug-2015)
43. World Kidney Day 2015 (Mar-2015)
44. Sapiens PD Assist Programme (Jan-2015)
45. Kidney Week 2014 – Philadelphia (Nov-2014)
46. World Kidney Day 2014 (Mar-2014)
47. Tamil Magazine – Amudhasurabi (Feb-2014)
48. Vitamin D deficiency: myth or reality? – The Hindu (Jan-2014)
49. Honouring of Mr. Harikumar – World Transplant Games 2013. (Aug-2013)
50. Tamil Magazine – Mangayar Malar (Aug-2013)
51. SPICEJET inflight magazine (Jun-2013)
52. World Kidney Day 2013 – Launch of Video on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by Actor. Arvind Swamy (Mar-2013)
53. Launch of Cystinosis Foundation India in presence of Superstar Rajinikanth (May-2012)
54. World Kidney Day 2011 – Launch of Urine Albumin Home Test Strip (Mar-2011)
55. Rare and complex kidney surgery on 7 year old boy (Dec-2010)
56. Urine Albumin Home Test Strip (Oct-2010)
57. Salt reduction campaign – WALKATHON – TIRUCHI, Pondy, Chennai (Mar-2010)
58. Patent for Drug (Mar-2010)
59. Endorsement of www.sugarbp.org by Prof. Dr. John FeeHally – President-elect., International Society of Nephrology (ISN) (Feb-2010)
60. Launch of the website www.sugarbp.org (Oct-2009)
61. Launch of Early Disease Programme (Oct-2009)
62. Kidney awareness – Kalki (Feb-2008)
63. Kidney awareness – The Hindu (Mar-2006)
64. Kidney awareness – Kalki (Sep-2004)
65. Transplantation across blood group (Sep-2004)
66. Osteoporosis and Bone Densitometry (Apr-2002)
67. Indigenous machine for acute kidney failure -VIRA (Dec-1999)
68. Kidney awareness – Indian Express (Nov-1999)
69. Initiation of the foundation (Mar-1999)