Description: This book is a fascinating read that has relevance to public health practitioners, occupational medical and health providers, health policy makers, health physicists -- in short, anyone ...

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a very ...

They called it “lip pointing.” It was how the dial painters at United States Radium Corp. kept their paintbrushes from fraying between strokes. The employees, mostly young women, would stick the end ...

They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big screen in ...

Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks — and... Dark Lives Of 'The Radium Girls' Left A Bright Legacy ...

Tom Reimann is a writer and comedian and somehow Senior Editor of Features at Collider. He has written for Cracked.com, Mad Magazine, BunnyEars.com, and Some More News, and is the co-founder of the ...

CASE-history data are presented on 12 women who have carried in their skeletons for many years toxicologically interesting burdens of the radioisotopes Ra 226 (radium, or Ra) and Ra 228 (mesothorium, ...

“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; Sourcebooks (479 pages, $26.99) Amazon TNS “The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; ...