Train and bus drivers, doctors and carers, employees in companies where machines run around the clock: In many industries, people work in shifts. Some start early in the morning, or at midday. Others ...
West Penn Hospital on Liberty Ave. in Bloomfield. For nurses like Sam Miller, a good night’s sleep can be rare. After constantly rotating between day shift and night shift, some days at West Penn ...
A simple question about work hours has highlighted a larger health concern: how modern work schedules silently shape long-term well-being. Dr Sudhir Kumar, senior neurologist at Apollo Hospitals in ...
Q. I work in a hospital and my husband works in an airport. For years, we've had to work night shifts a few times a month. I was OK with that at first, but as I get older (I'm 53), I find it harder to ...
Work schedules beyond the traditional eight-hour shift are increasingly common, particularly in emergency response, disaster recovery, and high-demand industries. While extended and unusual shifts ...
A new study led by researchers at York University has found a link between shift work and frailty among middle-aged and older workers in Canada, especially for women on rotating shifts. "We cannot ...
Shift work may pay the bills but it comes at a cost to your health, an increasing body of research shows. The latest study to add to the evidence finds that working overnight or rotating shifts is ...
WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- People who work rotating shifts have significantly lower levels of serotonin, a hormone and neurotransmitter in the central nervous system believed to play an important role in ...