The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

In the early 20th century, the world went ‘raving mad on the subject of radium’, according to George Bernard Shaw. The newly ...

There were 13 in all working at the Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey. But Theatre Baton Rouge's Young Actors Program will look at this true life story through the eyes of only three Radium ...

Shoppers can’t stand when toothpaste, deodorant and other items are locked up behind glass display cabinets at stores. Customers, accustomed to taking whatever they want off a shelf, don’t ...

"We do produce some of our products for the U.S. in Mexico, primarily toothpaste, and we're working on potential mitigation plans," Sutula said. Colgate has said its toothpaste, sold under brands ...

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What was it supposed to do? Hard to say. “neither time nor money” in their “efforts to substantiate . . . the almost unbelievable health results that early users of this invention [the Thomas Radium C ...