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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Working night and rotating shifts may negatively affect cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults, according to new research. The cross-sectional analysis used data from the Canadian ...