Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Medical

A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls tells of the thirty-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.

Night Navigation opens on a night of freezing rain in upstate New York - the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del’s 37-year-old manic-depressive son, Mark, needs a ride, but she is afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed. Through the four seasons, Night Navigation takes us into the deranged, darkly humorous world of the addict - from break-your-arm dealers to boot-camp rehabs to Rumi quoting NA sponsors.

Bingham Foundation field investigator Samuel Todd discovers a conspiracy of silence surrounding the research being conducted by Dr. Telford Gordon Thorndecker, the head of the well-to-do senior care facility Crittenden Hall. Thorndecker is secretly breaking every law of God and man - and faces an ultimate decision. Lawrence Sanders at his suspenseful best.

World renowned neurosurgeon Jon Ritter is on the verge of a medical breakthrough that will change the world. His groundbreaking surgical treatment, using transplanted non-human stem cells, is set to eradicate the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease and give hope to millions. But when the procedure is slated for testing, it all comes to an abrupt and terrifying halt.

When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is ravaged by mysterious ball lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. As the condition begins to take hold, he realizes the end result will eventually kill him, ruining his plans to run for Congress - as well as his marriage. He does find a few compensations: his new youth and vigor attract a Cuban refugee reporter and a young lady lawyer, and his libido has been magically restored. Then a reclusive billionaire snatches "EZ" to use him as a medical guinea pig.

The Trauma ICU of a Level 1 trauma center is the setting for this thought-provoking novel, which reveals the ruthlessness of medical education and practice. James Fleming recounts a day in the life of a resident in emergency medicine at an urban teaching hospital. The novel's title, which translates loosely as I thirst, echoes the Christ of St. John. Tengo Sed's protagonist, however, known only as Hovercraft because he is always around, always feeling on edge, is not a savior but a hapless resident with a tendency toward mysticism.

Brander, security chief of the Syrtis Base on Mars, has been forced to invoke Emergency Directive SB-17-5Z. Two men have died, victims of an unknown alien disease. The entire base is now isolated. No one can enter or leave under any circumstances. Dr. John Naysmith, newly arrived on Mars, is leading a small medical team in a desperate attempt to isolate the virus and discover a serum to combat it. But if the disease continues to spread and gets out of control, then Brander will have no alternative but to annihilate the base and everyone in it with nuclear bombs!

Una "comitiva di sopravvissuti": a dieci anni esatti dal suo trapianto di fegato, Francesco viene invitato a una rimpatriata cui interverranno cento trapiantati assieme alle rispettive famiglie. È titubante, non sa se partecipare, ma alla fine, trascinato per un orecchio dalla Mamma, sale con lei sul torpedone. Acciacchi, fobie, farmaci indispensabili e piccole miserie: i protagonisti di questa gita somigliano ciascuno a una maschera della commedia, dal timido al giullare, dallo sbruffone al pauroso. In comune hanno il fatto di essere nati due volte.

Lui è Luigi, un quarantenne equilibrato, sentimentale, sereno e innamorato della moglie incinta. La casualità di un banale esame medico lo pone di fronte a una tremenda rivelazione: ha un tumore al rene e bisogna intervenire con urgenza. Così, con il ricovero, la vita di Luigi cambia drasticamente e si reduce a un'unica semplice realtà: l'ospedale, il reparto, i compagni di stanza, infermiere e caposala, i medici e, fra questi, su tutti, la mitica presenza del professor Zamagna, genio della chirurgia urologica, che vive solo per operare e che a Luigi appare un salvatore.

Emma è una giovane donna e ha una vita normale - un compagno, Orlando, una mamma, Corradina, e un fratello, Rocco, che sente di dover proteggere da quando il padre è morto in un incidente sul lavoro. Tutto sembra crollare dal giorno in cui scopre di essere affetta da una malattia degenerativa, curabile solo con un trapianto di cellule staminali. Tra i possibili donatori emerge un profilo con una compatibilità elevatissima, ma sembra essere sparito nel nulla. Risultano solo un nome, un cognome e un vecchio indirizzo.

La crisi che ha investito l'Occidente è giunta alle sue estreme conseguenze e il mondo vive un difficile periodo di transizione, in cui il lavoro ha perso la sua centralità. In questo contesto l'ex biologo Edoardo Faschi, ossessionato dalla morte del fratello Alessio avvenuta vent'anni prima, si sottopone a un trattamento psicologico sperimentale ispirato alla scatola specchio di Ramachandran - un dispositivo utilizzato per curare la sindrome dell'arto fantasma nei pazienti mutilati - che promette di aiutarlo a elaborare la perdita.

Der Physiker Hans Ichting wird nur wenige Tage, nachdem die Videobloggerin Nina Bornholm ihn interviewt hat, tot aufgefunden. Nina zweifelt an der offiziellen Darstellung eines Selbstmords und beginnt zu recherchieren. Bald wird klar, dass Ichting in den USA an einem streng geheimen Projekt mitgearbeitet hat. Doch jemand will um jeden Preis verhindern, dass die Wahrheit über das KALA-Experiment ans Licht kommt. Während sich überall auf der Welt unerklärliche Ereignisse häufen, wird immer deutlicher, dass die Zukunft der Menschheit auf dem Spiel steht.

Die junge Archäologin Nora Kelly ergreift bei ihrem Gang durch die verfallenen Räume eines halb zerstörten Ranchgebäudes eine merkwürdige Unruhe, nicht ohne Grund, denn urplötzlich wird sie von einem grässlichen Wesen angegriffen, halb Mensch, halb Tier, das von ihr die Herausgabe eines ominösen Briefes verlangt...

Bei Ausgrabungsarbeiten in New York werden 30 Leichen eines Serienmörders entdeckt, der um das Jahr 1870 sein Unwesen getrieben hat. Allen Toten ist gemeinsam, dass Teile der unteren Wirbelsäule entfernt wurden. Nachforschungen des Agenten Pendergast führen zu einem Professor Enoch Leng, der im neunzehnten Jahrhundert eine Raritätenschau betrieb, ein sogenanntes Kuriositätenkabinett.

Twin gynecologists are found dead in their trash-littered Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Who killed them? And why? Based on a true story that Linda Wolfe was the first journalist to write about, her novel explores the mystery behind the deaths of these wealthy and prominent doctors, and the dark and perverse secret that ruled their lives - one that they tried desperately to hide until the final moments of their deaths.

Sempre deixei muito claro para a minha esposa que ter um filho não estava nos meus planos. Todo o meu foco era gerir a empresa familiar e não havia tempo ou espaço para me dedicar a uma criança. Entretanto, ela passou por cima do que eu havia repetido diversas vezes e ficou grávida. Só que eu não poderia prever que Grace fosse morrer em um trágico acidente e me deixar com um recém-nascido prematuro.

A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room, even though he isn't diabetic. An ulcer patient dies of shock after receiving a transfusion of the wrong blood type. A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of medication and suffers a fatal heart attack. Brain surgeon Dr. Tyler Matthews suspects that something is seriously wrong with the hospital's new "Med-InDx" computerized medical record system. But he doesn't suspect that there's something murderously wrong with it.

Hat die nächste Stufe der Evolution bereits begonnen? Am Universitätsklinikum München entdeckt die Radiologin Ella Schwarz bei einigen ihrer Patienten mysteriöse Gehirnveränderungen. Was zunächst wie eine medizinische Anomalie erscheint, entpuppt sich schnell als düsteres Geheimnis von ungeahntem Ausmaß – denn mehrere Betroffene haben bereits Selbstmord begangen. Oder wurden sie kaltblütig ermordet? Gemeinsam mit dem MRT-Techniker Ben Martens versucht Ella herauszufinden, was sich hinter den Kulissen abspielt.

Lebt der erste Unsterbliche längst unter uns? Forscher eines Schweizer Biotech-Startups verkünden eine Sensation: Sie haben den Unsterblichkeitscode geknackt. Doch der Proband ihrer Studie, dessen DNA über Nacht zum wertvollsten Objekt der Welt geworden ist, flieht aus einem ihrer Labore. Zurück bleiben zwei Leichen. Um ihn aufzuspüren, beauftragen die Behörden FBI-Genetiker Mason Brown und die dänische Interpol-Agentin Jonna Nielsen. Doch ihre Ermittlungen, die sie durch halb Europa führen, werden immer mysteriöser:

Ainda muito jovens, Thomas e Liz se conheceram e viveram uma paixão intensa que não acabou nada bem. Agora, oito anos depois, eles se encontram de novo, nos corredores do Chicago Mercy, onde o sexy Dr. Thomas Hardy será chefe da recém formada Dra. Liz Spencer. O que nenhum dos dois têm ideia é que há muito mais entre eles do que uma paixão mal resolvida que ainda faz faíscas voarem. Um segredo muito bem guardado por oito anos está prestes a vir à tona. Algo que mudará a vida de todos drasticamente.