"These Shining Lives" tells the true story of four female workers at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois.

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 ...

Inspired by true events, Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory follows the shocking and poignant story of the young women who painted ...

Drury Performing Arts will stage “Radium Girls” on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15, telling the true story of Grace Fryer’s fight for justice after radium poisoning.

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 ...

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 ...

Radium-Treated Patients University research center looking for persons who received radium injections or who drank radium solutions, such as “Radithor,” before 1935. Write Z7516— Advt. This ...

Fannie White stopped drinking the radium-laced well water drawn from beneath her Severna Park home 20 years ago. But lately, with her husband gone and her health weakened, the jugs of spring water ...