HHS Releases New Global Health Strategy
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Jan. 5 released its first Global Health Strategy at a forum sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. In a world where the flow of people and goods stretch across the globe, our only chance to keep Americans safe is if the system for preventing, detecting, and containing disease stretches across the globe,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “We can no longer separate America’s health from global health.” Read more

If your team is performing innovative research in pathology or laboratory practice, or developing new strategies in education, ASCP has created a forum to reach pathologists, pathology residents, and laboratory professionals worldwide. Poster sessions and oral abstract presentation competitions will take place at the 2012 ASCP Annual Meeting in Boston, Oct. 31–Nov. 2. Read more

Jesse McCoy, PA(ASCP)^CM, moved from the sidelines to the frontlines of medical care when she switched careers from a medical illustrator to a pathologists’ assistant. Accidentally discovering the career online, Ms. McCoy left her job and enrolled in two-year National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences-accredited master’s program to become a pathologists’ assistant at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn. Read more

Laura W. Bush, former First Lady, and Barbara Bush, Founder and CEO of Global Health Corps, will be featured at the 2012 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Annual Meeting, Nov. 1, in Boston. Both are proponents for women’s health and are actively engaged with the “Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative.” Read more