To his shock and horror ... he wound up digging Mollie’s entire left jaw out with nothing but his fingers. Unbeknownst to him, the radium had perforated the bone cells and stripped them of ...

"Medicine," he said, “is gradually abandoning its old-fashioned concoctions, and we are taking up radium with exceedingly bright prospects. Its use will consist of physical treatment almost ...

Mount Vernon High School students are going back in time for their fall production Radium Girls, written by D. W. Gregory, produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of ...

As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany ... It was a time, during the first decades of the 20th century, when radium was considered a miraculous medical cure-all, routinely ...

While she wasn’t super familiar with the play or the events before this past September when work began on the production, the events it portrays weren’t a big shock ... up for the U.S. Radium ...

“They were told, when they signed up to become a dial painter, that what they were working with, the radium, was not only safe, but actually beneficial to health,” said Kate Moore, author of ...

This is because it is similar to calcium, which is also absorbed by bone cells. The cancer cells in the bone take up radium 223 and it then releases radiation which travels a very short distance. This ...