Soon, he fell violently ill - but instead of stopping, he continued drinking the substance as he continued to lose weight, ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol ...

The radioactive elements are found most abundantly ... In a number of meteorites, the radium content has been determined by Prof. Strutt and the present writer, and if it may be assumed that ...

Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison.

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

A big fear is that the radiation from Radium-226 (which has a half-life of 1600 years) and Radium-228 (half-life 5.75 years) will be poisoning the tri-state region long after the fracking boom is ...

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

Savita Dandapani, MD, PhD, discusses the rationale behind a study evaluating the combination of radium-223, hormone therapy, ...

Phosphogypsum is slightly radioactive with elevated levels of radium, which can decay into radon. Yes, radon is linked to cancer, but after an extensive analysis, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

“neither time nor money” in their “efforts to substantiate . . . the almost unbelievable health results that early users of this invention [the Thomas Radium C. R. Jar] had obtained.” Why bother with ...