Night shift workers in health care, media and the service industry share their top tips for surviving an overnight schedule. Kaity McKee/TikTok; Claire Murashima/TikTok; Sarah Maria Awang/TikTok While ...

The responsibilities are the same — but there are still new challenges. Working the night shift as a nurse can require considerable adjustments if your career has thus far been limited to daytime ...

Working night shifts has become common in today’s demanding world. But what comes with such shifts is the toll on health. Studies have shown that staying awake at night can disrupt the body’s natural ...

Humans have evolved to sleep at night and be active during the day Shift work can disrupt many aspects of your life. A 2020 study of 86 nurses who worked eight-hour, rapidly rotating shifts found they ...

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 ...

Law enforcement officers, other first responders, current and former hospital workers such as the present writer, and many others must work at night. This is a problem. Most mammals are actually ...

The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person's 'body-clock', significantly improves quality of sleep and work ...

Just a few days on a night shift schedule throws off protein rhythms related to blood glucose regulation, energy metabolism and inflammation, processes that can influence the development of chronic ...