People living in Radium Hot Springs appear willing to take a dip into privatization, but don't want to plunge in head first. On Tuesday, Parks Canada announced its plans to private hot springs in ...

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 ...

From toothpaste to dinnerware to your grandfather’s watch, many of the everyday products sold ...

Truth can be stranger than fiction, and the story of the Radium Girls of the 1920s still emanates an eerie cautionary glow ...

More than half of Americans could be drinking tap water tainted with a radioactive element. A new report from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) finds more than 170 million people are ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Modern life have you feeling frazzled? Flagging a bit as you rush through your day? Maybe you’re one of the millions of consumers who lean on ...

It may be 2017, but working women are still facing many of the same issues that have been plaguing them for decades: sexism, unequal pay, misogyny, sexual harassment, and more. And while these issues ...

This 1921 ad touts the “power” of radium. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The harmful effects ...

Joey King and Abby Quinn play young women working under dangerous conditions in a 1920s radium factory in Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler's drama 'Radium Girls.' By Frank Scheck You can feel the ...

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 ...