The Radium Girls

The Radium Girls were the first people who worked, for years, with one of the world’s most radioactive substances — and suffered the consequences.

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Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/nyregion/mae-keane-who-painted-watch-dials-with-a-radium-mixture-dies-at-107.html

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-drink-radiation

http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/2011/03/24/the-radium-girls/

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-one-of-the-last-radium-girls-dies-at-107

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/science/a-glow-in-the-dark-and-a-lesson-in-scientific-peril.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/radium.html#discovered

http://www.wired.com/2009/12/1221curies-discover-radium/

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/Interactive_Periodic_Table_Transcripts/Radium.asp

If radiation causes cancer how does it treat cancer?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xmc9kcmApGkJ:www.shu.edu/offices/freshman-studies/upload/Glow-in-the-Dark-RG-article.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us