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Pain is Personal; Relief From Cancer Pain Should Be, Too
Perhaps the only thing worse than being diagnosed with cancer yourself is watching someone you care about suffer through it – something University of Virginia nurse scientist and assistant professor Virginia LeBaron knows from experience.
Her father quickly died of cancer, and in significant pain, in 2002. LeBaron worked for years as a palliative care nurse practitioner in Nepal and India, where pain relief medications like morphine were scarce and acute cancer pain high. She studied the incidence of untreated cancer pain in Southwest Virginia, where access to opioids, the gold standard for serious cancer pain, is additionally complicated by concerns about its abuse and diversion.
Nursing dean appointed to top advisory council
Cindy Munro, dean of the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies
By Maya Bell Dean appointed to nursing’s top advisory council By Maya Bell
01-26-2021
Cindy Munro, who leads the School of Nursing and Health Studies, will help guide the National Institute of Nursing Research, which launched her own career.
At the onset of her career, Cindy Munro knew she wanted to be a nurse scientist and was thrilled when the predecessor to the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded her a fellowship to pursue her doctoral degree in 1989.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be accepting comments on a revised version of its Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) expected to be finalized sometime next year. “To facilitate review, revised text has been highlighted in yellow throughout the document to identify significant changes. A brief comment explanation of the change also is provided,” the agency said in a Dec. 14
Federal Register notice. In an email to stakeholders, NSF Policy Head Jean Feldman said the draft incorporates “the revised [2 C.F.R. § 200]: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Award that was effective November 12, 2020,” noting that “we have not highlighted the revised references throughout the document.” Feldman also said NSF award conditions currently apply “if there is a discrepancy” between them and the revised 2 C.F.R. § 200.
NIH to support radical approaches to nationwide COVID-19 testing and surveillance
RADx-rad program will fund non-traditional and repurposed technologies to combat the current pandemic and address future viral disease outbreaks.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded over $107 million to support new, non-traditional approaches and reimagined uses of existing tools to address gaps in COVID-19 testing and surveillance. The program also will develop platforms that can be deployed in future outbreaks of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. A part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, the awards from the RADx Radical (RADx-rad) program will support 49 research projects and grant supplements at 43 institutions across the United States. It will focus on non-traditional viral screening approaches, such as biological or physiological markers, new analytical platforms with novel chemistries or engineering, rapid detection strategies, point-of-care devices,