Why Updates to the No Surprises Act are Great News for Pathologists

A Funding Opportunity for Small, Independent Laboratories

July 7, 2026 LEAP in Health IT Notice of Funding Opportunity [https://healthit.gov/about/funding-announcements/leap-notice-of-funding/#notice-of-funding-opportunity-2026] SECmeres outperform extracellular vesicles as potential blood RNA biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74541-8] Clinical Laboratory Science Investigator Award [https://foundation.cap.org/grant-award/clinical-laboratory-science-investigator-award/] Building Capacity for Immunohistochemistry Pathology Services for Breast Cancer at a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Rural Kenya [https://foundation.cap.org/webinar/buildingpathologycapacitykenya/]

Youth Explore the World of Pathology

July 6, 2026 Women in Science - Field Museum [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/page/women-science]

Westgard Rules: A Quality Control Foundation for the Lab

Thursday July 2, 2026 Laboratory Management – Westgard Rules Application in Quality Control [https://education.cap.org/content/2026-cpip-f-case-6-laboratory-management-%E2%80%93-westgard-rules-application-quality-control] Use of Race in Prenatal Screening [https://www.cap.org/cap-guidelines/use-of-race-in-prenatal-screening/] The Peri-necrotic Niche of Glioblastoma Drives Tumor-associated Macrophage Polarization and Immunosuppression via Podoplanin-mediated CLEC5A Activation [https://www.jci.org/articles/view/199228] Prussian Blue: An Artistic and Diagnostic Odyssey [https://www.thepathologist.com/issues/2026/articles/june/prussian-blue-an-artistic-and-diagnostic-odyssey/]

How a UNC Cancer Program Grew Into a Pathology Hub in Malawi

July 1, 2026 UNC Project-Malawi Cancer [https://globalhealth.unc.edu/malawi/cancerprogram/] A Streptomyces Megacluster Encodes Synergistic Biotin-targeting Antibiotics [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10647-9] A Natural Depsipeptide Antibiotic Binds the E-site of the Bacterial Ribosome [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10589-2] Tailoring Your CV Based on Your Career Paths [https://www.cap.org/calendar/webinars/tailoring-your-cv-based-on-your-career-paths] The Culture Clash that Shaped Me [https://thepathologist.com/issues/2026/articles/june/the-culture-clash-that-shaped-me]

Support the Provider Reimbursement Stability Act

June 30, 2026 Tell Congress to Co-sponsor The Provider Reimbursement Stability Act (H.R. 8163) [https://cap.action.aristotle.com/alert/46cbdb60-7f79-4e23-abe4-028eb91c746b] Human donor liver viability evaluation with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adv7124] John H. Rippey, MD Grant for Laboratory Quality Assurance [https://foundation.cap.org/grant-award/john-h-rippey-md-grant-for-laboratory-quality-assurance/] "Discover Cancer Through Color" — A Coloring Book by Audrey Chan [https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/discovercancerthroughcolor]