Mixed with the right kind of paint, radium would luminesce after exposure to light, so that a watch face painted with the stuff could soak up energy during the day and stay visible all night long.

helped people understand the long-term effects of radium exposure on human health. That’s in part because of their participation in a decades-long research study at Argonne National Laboratory ...

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 ...

As one last exposure problem an analysis made at New England Deaconess Hospital of exposure to the radium nurse over a year's period is presented. There are 2 radium nurses, who handle all cases ...

Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill of Pittsburgh died last autumn of the same cause. Other of his friends are gravely worried.

How about your life? Hilander Theater, Kelso High School’s theater troupe, asks audiences that question with their production of “Radium Girls,” based on the true story of a group of women ...