Shift work has increasingly become a studied topic due to its threat to the physical health and mental well-being of shift workers. Firefighter shift work comprises long hours often combined with ...

Allied health professionals often treat scheduling as a logistical decision. They choose based on which hours fit their lives or which slots were open when they were hired. But shift patterns do more ...

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 ...

Why Early Shifts Disrupt the Body's Clock Roughly one in four workers operates outside the standard 9 to 5 schedule, including those who begin work very early in the morning. Many people with these ...

Most night shift workers are fixing their sleep wrong. Here's what actually works, according to the latest research.

Working double shifts is associated with alterations in normal cortisol patterns, according to a study published online April 8 in Nursing Open. Fadime Ulupınar, R.N., from Erzurum Technical ...

If you’re someone with an early-morning work shift, a new drug could one day help you wake up in the morning better than coffee or an energy drink. A recent clinical trial studied the drug ...