This article is authored by Dr Baljinder Singh, professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely rich deposit of radium-bearing ore—one of the richest, in proportion of radium to the ton ...

Harvey King performed operations on two facial cancerous growths and inserted celluloid pencils coated with radium within the affected areas. The method differed from that previously used in ...

IT is now well known that if the proportion of radium in the interior of the earth is the same as that in the surface rocks, the earth ough to be growing hotter, and the temperature gradient °f ...

It was a time, during the first decades of the 20th century, when radium was considered a miraculous medical cure-all, routinely added to consumer products from cosmetics to patent-medicine pick ...

Five young New Jersey women who were poisoned while painting luminous watch dials for U. S. Radium Corp., two years ago heard doctors pronounce their doom: one year to live (TIME, June 4 ...

Mount Vernon High School students are going back in time for their fall production Radium Girls, written by D. W. Gregory, produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of ...

The area's geology is naturally rich in minerals, including radium. Radium is a radioactive metal and has been linked to cancer. However, it is naturally occurring and the EPA allows small levels ...

Fluorine chemistry developed rapidly during the Second World War, with American scientists working on the 'Manhattan project' to separate fissionable uranium-235 from uranium-238. Uranium is ...