The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint on watch faces in the early 1900s while employed by ...

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

For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others trains or mermaids. For me it was rocks. I can pinpoint the moment exactly. I ...

Del Norte students are stepping back into the ‘60s with the musical, which opens Friday, Jan. 24 and runs through next ...

Not long ago, our Barone Middle School students placed well with a history exhibit about the women who died of radium poisoning after ingesting tiny quantiles of the glowing paint illuminating dials ...

One in four Michigan homes has high levels of radon, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great La ...

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Of the 4 persons with an average weekly exposure above 20 mr, 2 were radium workers, 1 was a dental technician, and the fourth was a resident physician who, early in his training, handled ...

So, radium comes from uranium ... "The longer the period and the higher the exposure then the more likelihood of causing cancer," said Wheat. Which is why Brent Wheat, the Environmental Health ...

Radon is a serious public health concern in Minnesota. The average radon level in Minnesota is more than three times higher ...