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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the planet warms, scientists are seeing evidence of earlier springs and later autumns all over the world. Snow is melting sooner, plants are flowering earlier—and now, researchers find that birds ...

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.

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 ...

In the second half of an interview with Police Federation chairman Terry Spence, Crime Correspondent Jonathan McCambridge hears about anger over proposed new working arrangements for officers Last ...

Estimates vary as to exactly how many shift workers there are in the UK, but figures generally sit around the 4 million mark – making up around 15% of the workforce. Shift workers are incredibly ...

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, ...

One often ignored consequence of global climate change is that the Northern Hemisphere is becoming warmer than the Southern Hemisphere, which could significantly alter tropical precipitation patterns, ...