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Dr. Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen's book, "Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything" (Workman Publishing), explores the history of charlatans and snake oil salesmen taking ...

Gone are the days when the only way to make butter seem even healthier was to name it after a radioactive element. Beginning in the 1910s, the girls instructed to put radium in their mouths didn't bat ...

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Amelia “Mollie” Maggia was the first to die. The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. It was lucrative — ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...

Editor's note, Jan. 15, 2015: Mae Keane was one of the last "radium girls," but not the last one. Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to see the full correction note. Before turning the page ...