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Selbst auf einer paradiesischen Insel lauert tödliche Gefahr – ein neuer Fall für die Forensikerin Tempe Brennan. Eine Reihe bizarrer Mordfälle führt die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan auf die karibischen Turks- und Caicos-Inseln. Stehen die grausam verstümmelten Leichen junger amerikanischer Touristen in Zusammenhang mit Bandenkriminalität? Je tiefer Tempe recherchiert, desto beunruhigendere Dimensionen nimmt der Fall an. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Mittelpunkt einer Verschwörung wieder, die viele Hunderte Menschenleben kosten könnte.

Selbst auf einer paradiesischen Insel lauert tödliche Gefahr – ein neuer Fall für die Forensikerin Tempe Brennan. Eine Reihe bizarrer Mordfälle führt die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan auf die karibischen Turks- und Caicos-Inseln. Stehen die grausam verstümmelten Leichen junger amerikanischer Touristen in Zusammenhang mit Bandenkriminalität? Je tiefer Tempe recherchiert, desto beunruhigendere Dimensionen nimmt der Fall an. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Mittelpunkt einer Verschwörung wieder, die viele Hunderte Menschenleben kosten könnte.

This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating consequences.

When a shocking exposé uncovers labs putting profits ahead of patients, Sophie's world is shaken to its core. While regulatory action may promise to restore faith in the system, Sophie suspects a hidden agenda remains at play. On a journey to uncover the truth, Sophie is taken from the serene beaches of Jamaica to snow-covered forest trails and even to the Argentine tango dance floor. Alongside unexpected allies and the brilliant biochemist Dr. Novikov, who she’s had her eye on for ages, Sophie is willing to do anything if it means protecting her patients.

This is a fictional story based on real scientific and medical facts. It is the story of an infection of Toxoplasmosis gondii and Leucochloridium paradoxum, the first acquired by contact with cat feces and the second acquired from snails. The horrifying thing is that these two have evolved ways to control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their demise. It is also a love story between two neurotic people who cannot cope with a world where their anxiety rules everything.

Katie, a stoic young Native American, faces family pressures, a developing distant romantic relationship, and stress from nursing school clinicals during her junior year at Crestmont University in Dallas. Her dream of becoming a nurse is challenged when her mother suffers an injury that could force her to stay on the farm, assume her mother’s duties, and postpone her education, perhaps permanently.

Wenn das Schicksal einen grausamen Plan für dich hat. Ist Spastik heilbar? Ben ist seit seiner Geburt Spastiker und wird immer wieder mit dieser Frage konfrontiert. Das Schicksal hält eine grauenhafte Antwort für ihn bereit. Ben hat einen schweren Autounfall, bei dem seine Beine völlig zerstört werden. Er liegt im Koma, und die Ärzte sind sich nicht sicher, ob er wieder erwacht und wenn ja, wie wird der Heilungsprozess mit seiner Krankheit harmonieren? In Amerika in scheint es Hoffnung zu geben. Ein Hirnforscher ist dabei, Elektroden zu entwickeln, die dem Patienten helfen sollen.

Murder by Disease! Someone is infecting patients at the Beach City Medical Center with the world's most deadly diseases, and it's up to Dora and Missy to stay alive long enough to stop them. This suspense-filled dark medical mystery thriller will keep listeners up at night wondering how many more innocent people have to die agonizing, gruesome deaths before Dora and Missy bring the killer to justice? And what will become of Beach City Medical Center, the barrier island's only hospital?

Das hochspannende Finale der Evolution-Reihe! Was passiert, wenn der Mensch Gott spielt? Ella, Ben und Gabriel fliehen immer noch vor Nicolai und der Operation Darwin. Dabei werden sie mit der erschütternden Wahrheit konfrontiert: Die einzige Hoffnung auf Freiheit ist die gewagte Manipulation der menschlichen DNA. Dafür spielen die Zwillinge eine entscheidende Rolle, denn ihre Gene sind der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

De acuerdo con los valores de Confucio, «una mujer educada es una mujer inútil», pero Tan Yunxian, nacida en una familia de élite, es criada en condiciones excepcionales. Su abuela es una de las pocas doctoras que hay en China, y enseña a Yunxian los pilares de la medicina, los Cuatro Exámenes —mirar, escuchar, tocar y preguntar—, algo que un hombre nunca puede hacer con una paciente.

Camille is a nurse specialising in supporting families through the difficult decision to donate the organs of their dying loved ones. Camille's mother is a gifted but uncompromising transplant surgeon determined to make it in a man's world until her own life falls apart. And Camille herself is a mother to Addie–five years old, critically ill and in desperate need of the very organs her mother and grandmother work with.

Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discover new medical innovations. But to the horror of the local population, a shortage of bodies soon led to the gruesome act of graveyard bodysnatching, a heartless crime that would soon spread like a disease throughout the city. And when stealing cadavers turns to murder, Burke & Hare became two of the most notorious serial killers of their time.

Melina, che detesta essere chiamata Carmela, cresce i suoi tre figli con una dedizione assoluta, a tratti ingombrante. Conosce il sacrificio e la fatica ma reagisce sprizzando vitalità e schiettezza. È una tifosa fanatica di calcio, sa citare a memoria scene e interpreti di innumerevoli film, inventa indimenticabili scherzi telefonici. Finché la sua salute non viene compromessa da un tumore al seno, tabù impronunciabile che nelle parole del figlio maggiore diventa tuamore, trasformando un presagio di sventura in una speranza possibile.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

A former child prodigy, she has been educated in one of the best medical schools under the supervision of the prestigious Daniela McKenna. At the age of twenty-seven, she moved from Boston to Los Angeles in search of a smaller hospital that would allow her to grow faster as a surgeon. Little did she expect that by a quirk of fate, she would find herself as interim chief of surgery, fighting for the permanent position against much more experienced doctors.

Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and lifestyle to predict how much—or little—time you’ve got left. That’s all well and good, but he’s also bought them for his daughter, his grandchildren, and even his eleven-year-old great-grandson. He wants them each to wait until their next birthday to use the app. But whether they scoff at it, sneak an early look, desperately turn into a health nut, or die before their appointed time, the gift is wreaking havoc.

When Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, forensic entomologist Nick Polchak signs up to help with the recovery effort. He is known as the Bug Man for his knowledge of insects and what they can reveal about the dead. The government's mandate is clear—rescue the living first, recover the dead later. But something is very wrong in the toxic soup-bowl of post-Katrina New Orleans. Someone is using the cover of disaster to kill . . . hiding the victims of murder in the same watery grave as the victims of Katrina.

In 2034, medical student Ellen McCarthy took an internship at the mysterious Grindland Institute to fulfill a graduation requirement. But what at first seems like a boring job supervising children soon has her tangled in questions about the Institute’s Resurrection Project. Meanwhile, ER nurse Mamie Simpson is grieving the loss of her daughter, Lainey, and hoping against hope that a new scientific breakthrough will provide a miracle for her and her husband.

Tu vida puede cambiar por completo en una sola noche. L., una mujer de cuarenta y dos años y madre de dos niños pequeños, despierta en medio de la noche. Un ruido ensordecedor inunda la habitación. "Debe ser R. lidiando con el insomnio, como siempre", piensa. Sin embargo, tras unos pasos llega un golpe seco; él ha caído al suelo. Lo que parece una escena excepcional se transformará en una película que nadie querría protagonizar.

Arya has time for only one thing: saving lives as a surgeon. She is not interested in a relationship. Her life is already too complicated without adding new problems into the mix. Besides, there are too many other women out there to settle for just one. Patricia wants to be seen as more than a single mother. Her seven-year-old son fills her life, but after leaving behind the toxic relationship with her ex-husband, she's been longing to feel wanted again.