Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A century ago, radium in scant quantities was thought to be healthful. People sipped it diluted in water and applied makeup made ...

Five New Jersey women who one year ago believed that today they would be dead, were still alive last week but uncomfortable at the imminence of death. They are suffering from radium poisoning ...

Two movies about irradiated women in one year? Sure, why not. Radium Girls — now on Netflix — follows slightly on the heels of Amazon’s Radioactive, a bio of Marie Curie, the groundbreaking scientist ...

The Roaring Twenties brought economic growth and new discoveries including radium, an element discovered by Madame Curie that was heralded as a cure for cancer. Luminous watches were the latest ...

Based on the true story of female factory workers who ingested radium and fought to sue their employers for their suffering from radium poisoning, "Radium Girls" is Scene One Theatre's latest play and ...

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 their ...

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 Flinn ...