In North America and Europe, working the night shift was associated with a 32% increased risk for breast cancer overall (odds ratio [OR], 1.316), the authors report.

Towarnicki's breath caught, a familiar feeling after four years of working night shifts as a sexual assault nurse examiner in this northwestern Montana city. "You almost want to curse," Towarnicki ...

So I’m receiving report from the outgoing night-shift charge nurse at a Florida corrections facility. “His right foot is 12 and a quarter inches this morning,” she says.

Nurses and midwives in the study who switched from working mostly during daylight hours to working odd hours in the evening and night saw an increase in their body mass indexes over a two-year period.

A change of venue for the change-of-shift report had an "immediate and dramatic" effect for nursing staff and patients on a medical oncology unit at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New ...

Dear Annie: I’ve worked as a night-shift nurse for the past six years and have always struggled with sleep, but lately it’s gotten worse. I’m lucky if I get four hours during the day, and ...

Dear Annie: I’ve worked as a night-shift nurse for the past six years and have always struggled with sleep, but lately it’s gotten worse. I’m lucky if I get four hours during the day, and ...