Gone are the days when the only way to make butter seem even healthier was to name it after a radioactive element. Beginning in the 1910s, the girls instructed to put radium in their mouths didn't bat ...

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Dr. Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen's book, "Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything" (Workman Publishing), explores the history of charlatans and snake oil salesmen taking ...

In 1916, dial painting was the trendy new profession for young American and Canadian women; it was artistic and well-paid. The women were paid up to three times the amount they’d be earning at other ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the chemical element radium was widely believed to cure a number of ailments. It also was used as a way to create glow-in-the-dark faces on watches and clocks.

Joey King and Abby Quinn play young women working under dangerous conditions in a 1920s radium factory in Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler's drama 'Radium Girls.' By Frank Scheck You can feel the ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When John ...

Radium-223 dichloride (radium-223), an alpha emitter, selectively targets bone metastases with alpha particles. We assessed the efficacy and safety of radium-223 as compared with placebo, in addition ...