The newest show opening at the Performing Artists Collective Alliance (PACA) is sure to leave you glowing with excitement. PACA’s latest show, Radium Girls, will open this ...

An expert discusses how radiopharmaceuticals such as radium-223 offer a valuable different mechanism of action in treating advanced prostate cancer, requiring careful patient selection, safety ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Senator announced plans to introduce a bill that would keep radium out of drinking water in the Commonwealth. The bill, authored by Senator Katie Muth (D – Berks ...

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

They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big ...

That radium got its own mention is unsurprising to anyone reading the newspapers around that time. Everybody was talking about radium, all the humorists had jokes about radium, all the quacks were ...

D.W. Gregory’s 1999 play “Radium Girls,” now in a new production at Orange Coast College, tells the story of five women behind the 1928 court case against the United States Radium Corp. for ...

In 1925, five women, all of them sick, sued U.S. Radium Corporation. One woman’s hair glowed in the dark. They were all exhaling radon gas, and they knew they didn’t have much time.

The Radium Girls' case was settled in 1928, putting a swift end to shaping paintbrushes with the mouth and open containers of radium paint.