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Earth recorded its shortest day on record on June 29, completing one rotation in 1.59 milliseconds in under 24 hours. Scientists aren’t sure what caused the slightly faster rotation, but speculate it could be related to climate change, tides, or even the Earth’s layers. The irregular rotation created the need for something known as a leap second, a second added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which keeps our clocks as close to solar time – the movement of the sun – as possible. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> So far, Earth’s rotation has mostly slowed over time, so only positive leap seconds were added to the atomic clock to compensate, but it was only recently revealed that on June 29, Earth’s rotation was recorded to be spinning faster than usual. “If Earth’s fast rotation continues, it could lead to the introduction of the first negative leap second,” a story published on the timeanddate website warns. A negative leap second is a second t

The largest-ever medical records-based study of adverse events suffered by hospitalized patients in the US, is published in the July 12 issue of JAMA , reported a significant reduction in the rate of adverse events over the past decade. The study findings are promising for patient safety and the effectiveness of hospital patient safety initiatives. In this study, the unidentified medical records of 244,542 patients in 3,156 US hospitals over 10 years were examined. The researchers used the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (MPSMS), a surveillance system administered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) designed to assess 21 in-hospital side effects in patients with the primary condition acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). heart failure, pneumonia, major surgical procedures, and all other conditions. The relative risk was adjusted for the patient’s age, gender, race, ethnicity, specific comorbidities, and the characteristics of each hospital. The i