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 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 ...

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

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

A woman in Australia has been arrested on allegations she gave a 1-year-old girl a variety of drugs to make her sick over a period of several months, then posted videos of the infant online for ...

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The woman also took careful steps to conceal the alleged poisoning, which was only reported to police when doctors reported harm against the child when she was admitted to hospital. Following an ...

A 34-year-old Australian woman was charged with torture as police accused her of administering unauthorized medication to a 1-year-old girl and posting videos of the child in “immense distress ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) in Hong Kong is investigating reports of food poisoning involving passengers on flights from Nepal. A total of 36 people have fallen ill on two Cathay ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, carbon monoxide poisoning kills over 400 people per year in the United States. "Carbon monoxide poisoning also sends an additional 100,000 people to emergency ...

If your New Year's resolution is to learn the exposure triangle and switch to manual mode, I'm here to put you on the right path... So, you’ve upgraded your phone or point-and-shoot camera and picked ...