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 ...

Long-term shift work has an ageing effect on the brain that leads to an impaired ability to think and remember, according to a new study. The findings show that a decade or more of working rotating ...

New research has shown that working an irregular shift pattern may be causing long-term damage to people’s memory and mental abilities (Getty) Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for ...