Soon, he fell violently ill - but instead of stopping, he continued drinking the substance as he continued to lose weight, ...

One was as young as 11. But Theatre Baton Rouge's Young Actors Program will look at this true life story through the eyes of ...

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

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...

The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint ...

In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

Kate Moore (authorkatemoore) on BuzzFeed - I am the author of The Radium Girls, the incredible true story of the American women who stood up and fought for justice and in so doing changed the world.