Suicide – Let’s take necessary steps to prevent it

Take steps to prevent spoliation when using electronic records.

A. Spoliation is the destruction or alteration of evidence or failure to preserve property for another’s use in litigation. 1 In the aftermath of Enron and the Arthur Andersen document destruction scandal, many judges view spoliation akin to contempt and will punish offenders accordingly. For example, Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm recently imposed damages and costs of over $1 million on the de...

Strategies to prevent suicide.

Safe at home. Feds, states take steps to prevent home-care crime.

In Brunswick County, N.C., police charged former home health provider Lisa Veronica McGee McClain, 43, with stealing a 74-year-old patient's personal information. McClain, employed by a local home-care agency, allegedly removed $260,000 from the patient's bank account between 2009 and 2011. She was arrested last year in Washington on a warrant for the thefts, but was erroneously released, leavi...

Actin-capping protein lets epithelial cells take the pressure

Shelterin protein keeps telomeres on edge A member of the shelterin complex helps moor telomeres at the nuclear periphery in worms, Ferreira et al. reveal. Telomeres protect the ends of chromosomes, and the shelterin complex protects telomeres, preventing them from triggering the DNA damage response. Yeast cells shove their telomeres to the fringe of the nucleus, and the marginalized structures...

Neurogenesis: Premature Mitotic Entry Lets Cleavage Planes Take Off!

Mutations in the gene microcephalin/MCPH1 result in the neurodevelopmental disease microcephaly. A recent report provides evidence that MCPH1 controls neuroprogenitor entry into mitosis via the Chk1-Cdc25b centrosome maturation pathway.