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 ...

Shift work is linked to a heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes, with the risk seemingly greatest among men and those working rotating shift patterns, indicates an analysis of the available ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 3.5 million people work irregular hours in the UK - and all of them are at greater risk of cancer, experts warn We are, as a nation, working longer hours and increasingly unsociable hours.

Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Working an irregular shift pattern may be causing long-term damage to people’s memory and mental abilities, new ...

BMW car workers in Oxford have voted in favour of new shift patterns, to cope with a hoped-for uplift in orders. Permanent staff at the German-owned Mini plant in Cowley were given the option of four ...

An ambulance worker took a hammer to her manager's skull in a row over shift patterns before sending a cruel text to a friend admitting what she had done. Stacey Smith, of Ascot Street in Tameside, ...