Health care facilities cannot function without personnel who are willing to work evening and overnight shifts. Yet evidence is mounting that shift work may be detrimental to workers’ health. In 2007, ...

Boston, MA -- Women who work a rotating (irregular) schedule that includes three or more night shifts per month, in addition to day and evening working hours in that month, may have an increased risk ...

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 ...

Long term shift work is linked to impaired brain power, finds research published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. The impact (for rotating shift patterns, at least) was stronger after ...

(HealthDay News) — Working non-standard hours – “shift work” – for many years is not only hard on the body, but may also dull the mind, new research suggests. According to the study, published online ...