It does however follow an earlier association made between shift work and breast cancer.
Commanders at Creech say that if there is stress, it comes from relentless around-the-clock shift work.
To blame is not merely night shift work but shifting shifts--rotations from morning to afternoon to graveyard.
The problems are familiar, too: any old-fangled manufacturer with a continuous process knows that shift work needs careful management.
Jobs which involved long periods of standing up, shift work and fatiguing work were also significantly linked with premature birth.
Many people already use Provigil to cope with night-shift work, jet lag and lack of sleep, and suffer few side-effects.
Pregnant women whose job is physically demanding - or who do shift work - could face more childbirth problems, say scientists.
Once approved for the orphan use, then the company can go for broader uses such as shift work and jet lag.
Nine to 5, 5 to 9, different shift work, we don't care.
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The changes to shift work and weekend allowances would have affected frontline staff, including care and day centre staff and refuse collectors.
If the working relationship is causing tension at home, the couple should look at ways to shift work responsibilities or change the reporting structure.
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There are parents doing shift work, they give the kids money and the kids do what they want, so you get kids out of control.
What had to change to make this business paradigm shift work?
Sleep patterns disrupted by shift work have been linked to heart disease, but this has also been linked to stress caused by unpleasant jobs, Prof Horne notes.
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Technically, these drugs are made to help people who suffer from the sleepiness that comes from night shift work, or as a result of maladies such as narcolepsy or sleep apnea.
"Further work is required, but night shift work and the associated changes in sleep patterns and hormones is incredibly complex and studies that will generate robust results are exceptionally hard to do, " he said.
The mobile-device boom, which is putting a camera, touch screen, and a high-speed Internet connection in more and more pockets and purses, is giving businesses a new way to shift work from employees to customers.
Some of the proposed explanations for the link between shift work and obesity, such as irregular meal times and metabolism disruptions at the cellular level, may help explain the social jet lag findings as well, Roenneberg says.
These included "people who are not prepared to work what has to be shift work, it's a service that has to be delivered seven days a week, 24 hours a day" and people "who are not prepared or who are not able to do the very personal, intimate care that's needed and that's particularly where wages are lower than we would like to pay".
It may even be worthwhile to reconsider the outsourcing of other types of work such as data analyses and bulk syntheses now done in India and shift this work to other countries where IP is respected and supported.
And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
Bryan switched to a day shift at work to conquer his bad eating habits.
The shift-work culture means working until time is up, rather than until work is done.
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Mrs McCarthy finished her shift at work after being told the good news.
Shift-work at awkward hours and six-day weeks are becoming more common.
Attending to all administrative matters pertaining to the Unit, including the Composition Unit, ensuring the proper and timely preparation of all types of reports, leave plans, shift-work timetables, etc.
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For the research on shift-working suggests that human beings are ill-adapted to working at night, says Simon Folkard, who studies shift-work from the University of Wales in Swansea.
For one, female soldiers tend to have more risk factors for breast cancer including chemical exposures, longterm use of oral contraceptives and nighttime shift-work than their civilian peers.
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There is no harm in having personal conversations really, but you need to rebalance and shift to work discussions first, otherwise both you and others will see it as a non-work channel.
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The National Labor Relations Board's complaint earlier this year that Boeing illegally had tried to shift union work to the plant enraged the broader business community, fraying relations with the Obama administration.
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