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 ...

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 ...

New research from scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder has, for the first time, studied how protein levels in human blood can vary over a 24-hour period depending on when a person is ...

Working nights takes a toll on the body in ways most people don't fully grasp until they experience it firsthand. The weight ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A police officer who works the night shift, typically from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., already is at a disadvantage when it comes to getting a good "night's" sleep. Add frequent overtime to ...

Sleep at any age is essential to overall health. But for 3 million older people in the U.S. who work the night shift, restful sleep is hard to come by. Sleep disruption can lead to depression, ...

Night shifts have an impact on genes regulating important biological processes and their expression can't adapt to new sleeping and eating patterns and that most of them stay tuned to their daytime ...