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 ...

Long term shift work is linked to impaired brain power, finds research. The impact (for rotating shift patterns, at least) was stronger after a period of 10 or more years of exposure. And although the ...

Rowing the gears in a manual-transmission car used to be so simple. Back in the old four-speed days, your forward gears formed an “H” pattern. Then came the five-speed gearbox, which put fifth gear to ...

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