Toxic radium levels were detected at a landfill in St. Louis, Missouri connected to a World War II-era bomb. Radioactive waste from the atomic bomb was illegally dumped at West Lake Landfill.

In a hurry to learn what damage radium had done, one William W. Cardow, Waterbury, Conn., motor mechanic, had an autopsy performed on his wife a few hours after her death last week. Dr. Frederic ...

The EPA now recognizes the risks of gamma radiation from radium in coal ash, but many states aren’t even sure where the toxic waste has been used. In Alabama, environmental regulators say they ...

A 1998 story in the Chicago Sun-Times describes the impact of radium poisoning on Margaret Looney, who began working at Radium Dial Co. in Ottawa, Ill. in 1923.

They were women, not girls, and in the 1920s, their job was to paint radium — a toxic but miraculously glow-in-the-dark substance — on the dials of watches. The Business Journals.

Finally, she was officially diagnosed with radium poisoning — a fatal and irreversible condition. During this terrifying time, she became pregnant and gave birth to her second child, Mary Jane.

Likewise, a roach poison sold as Radium Roach Powder may have contained all sorts of toxic substances, but radium was certainly not one of them. On the other hand, Cincinnati’s notorious quack doctors ...

Radium Girls will be on stage in Mount Vernon High School’s Andrew Lee Pauley Theater which is also known as the little theater by door 4, on Nov. 14 and 15 at 7 p.m., with a 1p.m. matinee on ...

"Radium Girls' is a "ghost play" that tells of memories of what happened 100 years ago to young women painting radium dials, director says.

The radium results showed elevated radioactivity, at its highest, exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency's cleanup standard. WCNC Charlotte's samples registered radium levels, on average ...

They are suffering from radium poisoning contracted while painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corp. (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq). The company, after law suits, gave each woman ...