The graveyard shift at a newspaper is many marvelous things - exciting, liberating, challenging, full of bizarre stories and ...

Health care workers who take on extended or overnight shifts, particularly during periods of operational strain, may face heightened fatigue that can affect their own well-being. This fatigue arises ...

Growing evidence from epidemiological and lab-controlled studies links night shift work to adverse health outcomes, but evidence from real-world occupational ...

A seven-year cohort study of 4,345 male steelworkers in China links shift work and triglyceride-glucose metabolic obesity ...

Shift work encompasses any employment schedule that falls outside traditional daytime hours. Such schedules disrupt the temporal alignment between endogenous circadian rhythms and external demands, ...

A new study suggests melatonin supplements may help night shift workers boost their body's DNA repair processes, potentially offsetting some of the damage linked to working overnight. The findings are ...

A new clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine establishes evidence‑based recommendations for ...

Millions of people start work before sunrise—but their brains aren’t ready for it. A new clinical trial has found that the wake-promoting drug solriamfetol can significantly boost alertness in ...

It is four in the morning, and the ward is quiet. A junior doctor has been on her feet for nine hours. She is tired, her muscles are sore and her eyes are straining, but when her shift ends at six in ...

New evidence from more than 266,000 UK adults reveals that working permanent night shifts can disrupt the body’s internal clock, alter gut function, and heighten the risk of irritable bowel syndrome.