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 ...

More than half of Americans could be drinking tap water tainted with a radioactive element. A new report from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) finds more than 170 million people are ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Does your tap water contain the radioactive element radium? You might be surprised to hear that ...

Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was all ...

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Editor's note, Jan. 15, 2015: Mae Keane was one of the last "radium girls," but not the last one. Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to see the full correction note. Before turning the page ...

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 ...

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 ...

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