Specialists provide some helpful advice. Q: How does shift and night work affect our bodies? Many of our bodily functions shut down at night. Our body temperature drops, our pulse and breathing ...

Night time is considered to be the period between 11.00pm and 6.00am. The points listed below are the potential effects of working nightshifts: Shift work (especially nightshifts) can disrupt our ...

Researchers have linked shift work to a variety of health and sleep issues. Experts have ideas on how to prevent them. By Eric Berger When Samantha Shaw took a new job as a research technician for ...

Night shift work can be harmful to health in several ways: Disrupting circadian rhythms: The body's internal clock is set to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Night shift work disrupts ...

In a study she conducted while she was a CU Boulder postdoctoral researcher, Elizabeth Holzhausen and colleagues find a link between night-shift work and prostate-cancer risk More workers than ever ...