Bone metastases, which are commonly seen in patients with advanced cancers, are a major cause of skeletal events, disability, and death. Radium-223 dichloride (radium-223; Xofigo, formerly Alpharadin), a first-in-class, alpha-emitting radiopharmaceutical that selectively targets bone metastases with high-energy short-range alpha-particles, has been approved for the treatment of patients with ca...

milligram. As representatives in the British Empire "of the Radium Beige (Union Miniere du Haut Katanga), we would like to have an opportunity of correcting this statement. Previous to the discovery of the rich ores in the Belgian Congo, the standard price for radium element was $110 per milligram, and this price was reduced following the production of radium from the Congo ore to $70, equivale...

Saline waters from underground coal mines in Poland often contain natural radioactive isotopes, mainly 226Ra from the uranium decay series and 228Ra from the thorium series. More than 70% of the total amount of radium remains underground as radioactive deposits due to spontaneous co-precipitation or water treatment technologies, but several tens of MBq of 226Ra and even higher activity of 228Ra...

In 1936, almost 4 decades after the discovery of the x-ray and of radium, the German Röntgen Society erected a monument to commemorate all who had died as a consequence of exposure to x-rays or radium. George W.C. Kaye of the US National Physical Laboratory wrote the inscription: “To the röntgenologists and radiologists of all nations, doctors, physicists, chemists, technical workers, laborator...