The bizarre trend took the life of Eben Byers, a wealthy businessman and amateur golfer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His scary story is one of the most studied among scientists and has gone ...

When steel magnate Eben Byers succumbed to cancer in 1932, the Wall Street Journal commemorated his death with this headline: "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off." Byers had been ...

was doing. Businessman Eben Byers believed in Radisol and drank it a lot. Byers suffered from arm pain after injuring his arm in 1927 when he fell from the bed of a sleeping car. Charles Clinton ...