A county in Missouri has been deemed a 'cancer cluster' due to World War II-era radium used in America's atomic bomb efforts littering the region. For decades, residents of St Louis County have ...

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 ...

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 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 $ ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

She discovered that her body literally glowed in the dark. Finally, she was officially diagnosed with radium poisoning — a fatal and irreversible condition. During this terrifying time ...

A century ago, radium in scant quantities was thought to be healthful. People sipped it diluted in water and applied makeup made with it. They consumed milk and butter laced with it and brushed ...