Abbe managed to obtain 150 mg of radium salts from the Curies in 1903, before the cost and demand for the element skyrocketed (ultimately depriving Curie herself of a ready supply).

As every municipality learns and adjusts to maintaining government operations during COVID-19 outbreak measures, the Town of Monument Board of Trustees had its first virtual public meeting.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. And so then people took radium and marketed it as snake oil and panaceas and things like that, right? Prof. REDNISS: Right. It was such a magical-seeming elixir.

Object Details Description This ampoule was removed from a display of objects (see 1993.0262.13) donated to the New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Robert Abbe [b. April 13, 1851; d. March 7, 1928], a ...

Their plight was reminiscent of the so-called Radium Girls in the United States who contracted radiation poisoning around 1917 from licking their paint-brushes to sharpen them. In Chaville, traces ...

The University of Missouri has put on hold its plans to demolish radium-contaminated Pickard Hall while it conducts more ...

They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired ...

Her real name is Susan Smith, but most people know her by the name “Tuesday McGowan.” “That’s the name I go by,” said McGowan, creative director of design at Radium San Francisco. “In ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a legal limit for the combined level of two forms of radium, known as radium-226 and radium-228, that are allowed in drinking water: 5 picocuries ...

Radium-223 is an alpha-particle–emitting radioisotope that acts by delivering cytotoxic alpha-particle radiation to sites of bone metastases. 5, 6 As a calcium mimetic, radium-223 targets bone, ...