Recent research suggests that the modern day-day-night-night shift pattern for shift workers may not be as disruptive or as potentially carcinogenic as older, more extreme shift patterns. Recent ...

Working an occasional night shift for a prolonged period could ultimately kill you, according to a major new study. Researchers in the US looked at the medical records of about 189,000 women over a 24 ...

Nurses often work long hours, and the attendant stress and lack of sleep can impede collaboration with other nurses and physicians and threaten patient safety. Twelve-hour shifts allow nurses to work ...

Long term shift work is linked to impaired brain power, finds research. The impact (for rotating shift patterns, at least) was stronger after a period of 10 or more years of exposure. And although the ...

WORKPLACES should operate new shift patterns that would see staff in work four days followed by 10 days working from home, a new report recommends. The study by Imperial College London chemical ...