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Новый роман от автора "Бойни" — уникальный триллер в духе Артура Хейли о медицинском эксперименте, который пошел наперекосяк. История о силе любви и хрупкости человеческой личности. Биохимик Селия Йенсен в составе команды исследователей из Гарварда работает над новым лекарством от болезни Альцгеймера. У Селии есть и личная заинтересованность ­— ее отец болен, и она готова пойти на все, чтобы вылечить его. Фармакологи полны оптимизма, первые тестирования лекарства проходят успешно. Исследование переходит к третьей фазе — испытаниях на больных.

One of them would kill to be a mother… When someone tries to steal a newborn from Darkford General Hospital, everyone is horrified. Even more so when evidence suggests it was one of the midwives … Katie, Erica and Sue are used to being heroes, not villains, as colleagues on the labour ward...

When a national disaster strikes, "first the living" is the rule. Unless you're the Bug Man. 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...

Eine Investigativjournalistin fällt einem perfiden Anschlag mit dem Nervengift Nowitschok zum Opfer. Der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass ihr brutaler Tod mit ihren Recherchen zu einem russischen Diplomaten und Waffenhändler in Verbindung steht. Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team folgen hingegen einer anderen Spur und untersuchen das mysteriöse Verschwinden des Virologen Dr. Gabriel. Um die Drahtzieher des Giftanschlags zur Strecke zu bringen, müssen die Rechtsmediziner am Rande der Legalität ermitteln.

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.

Nora Collins works at the Postponement Center helping parents coordinate the controversial cryonic preservation of their newborn babies. Sometimes a choice for medical reasons, but more often because of career or educational obligations, financial aspirations, or due to parental immaturity. Past child-bearing years herself, Nora secretly atones for past decisions by living a solitary life. She develops a questionable, borderline addictive, relationship with the frozen neonates, frequently watching them and communicating with them in their crypod units.

Ein Kunstfehler bei einer Operation kostet eine Frau das Leben. Dr. Kate Chesne gerät unter Verdacht. Erst als eine weitere Frau stirbt, beginnt der Anwalt David Ransom zu ahnen, dass Kate unschuldig ist und das nächste Opfer sein könnte. Er spürt, dass die schöne Ärztin seine Hilfe braucht, und will alles tun, um sie zu beschützen.

In Teaching Machines How to Cry, Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis explores the story of Alba, a young woman seeking answers for a feeling of longing she can’t explain, and M, an AI prototype. Alba was a child when she first spent time with M, until they were unexpectedly driven apart. As an adult, Alba slowly realises that M might hold the answers to her life-long yearning when she remembers that the last time she felt whole was as a child when she taught M how to cry.

Medical treatment determined by artificial intelligence could do more than make Hope Kestrel's career. It could revolutionize healthcare. What the Seattle surgeon doesn't know is the AI has a hidden fatal flaw, and the people covering it up will stop at nothing to dominate the world's healthcare—and its profits. Soon, Hope is made the scapegoat for a patient's death, and only Jacie Stone, a gifted intern with a knack for computer science, is willing to help search for the truth.

Hackers can steal your money, control your car, or access your private files. What if one had a grip on your beating heart? Whatever. Clint Masters has his own problems. A city lies in ruins because Clint couldn't stop a psychopath. With his company in chaos, only a bottle of scotch tempers his misery. While his fiancé Beth wearies of his spiraling self-destruction, Clint seems unconcerned that his despondence will cost others their lives.

A fast paced medical thriller that sets and follows Jo Hart’s life long quest to recover and rediscover her principle identity. Pasting back fractured pieces of forgotten memories Jo, an orphan of Taurus, receives a little help from her friends, a loyal and lovable group, all of whom must embark on a dark forensic journey of transformative self discovery.

Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancee—takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can be an astronaut once more. . .

Michael, now a psychologist, has a past that’s catching up with him at the same time an unsatisfied patient is planning his revenge. Justin, now practicing from his home office, has a patient consumed by the fear of death—a young man scared of just about everything—including fear itself. As both father and son deal with their patients’ problems and own internal challenges, they also struggle daily with Mandy’s health issue, a potentially deadly illness that threatens to take away the most important woman in their lives.

The death of a nameless young woman in his emergency room spurs physician AJ Docker to seek answers. Together with his policeman friend and a police dog, he sets out on a quest for justice for his lost patient, but he discovers more questions than answers as he delves into the criminal world.

Following a control breach at a top-secret facility, a weapons grade biological pathogen, YPP-234, escapes and quickly spirals out of control. It is deadly, it is fast, and it goes unnoticed until it is too late. YPP-234 isn’t just a manmade biological weapon, it is a manmade extinction level event. Now it is out.

Die Optimierung des Menschen ist das Geschäft der Zukunft. Eine kalifornische Firma verkauft Blutplasma-Verjüngungskuren, Tech-Riesen investieren Unsummen in die digitale Bewusstseinsspeicherung. Und ein russisches Unternehmen verspricht durch die Konservierung des eigenen Leichnams ein Leben nach dem Tod. Währenddessen stirbt in Seattle ein obdachloser Junge an Herzversagen. Als der deutsche Chirurg Michael Wild beginnt, Fragen zu stellen, verschwindet er von der Bildfläche.

I can’t believe it when I learn my donor’s identity. The attack on Flora was all over the news. From my hospital bed I read every article, obsess over every word and soon I feel like I know her: the beautiful girl with flame-colored hair, adored by everyone around her. Why would anyone hurt someone so perfect? When Flora’s family reach out to me, I’m unsure. My hands are shaking as I arrive at their grand mansion with its golden stone and sprawling gardens, but they’re warm and welcoming, tears shining in her mother’s eyes as she smiles at me.

Eine dramatische Häufung unerklärlicher Nebenwirkungen ruft die WHO-Expertin Dr. Laura Delille auf den Plan. Unfruchtbarkeit, Fehlgeburten und Tod greifen um sich. Erste Spuren führen zu einem neuartigen genbasierten Impfstoff. Doch als sich die Symptome weiter verschlimmern und auch Menschen erkranken, die nie damit geimpft wurden, wird klar: Hier geht es um mehr als krasse Nebenwirkungen. Während Laura den rätselhaften Ursachen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent nachspürt, heftet sich der Reporter Hugh Stevens an ihre Fersen.

Dr. Dean Graves, M.E. is asked to help the Atlanta Health Department investigate a respiratory illness that’s infecting—and killing—mostly young, healthy individuals. The victims of the deadly disease seem to be random, with no traceable source for the exposure. As the illness with a 100% mortality rate spreads across Georgia, including Augusta where Dr. Graves lives and works, he starts to question whether this could be an act of bioterrorism.

Admitted to a remote psychiatric hospital, Sadie, a troubled teen and self-diagnosed psychic, believes she doesn’t need to be institutionalized. Not that it stops the medical staff from keeping her locked up under careful watch. As Sadie navigates the confines of her new surroundings, intense therapy sessions with a doctor she doesn’t trust, new medications, and the erratic personalities of the other residents, her special abilities begin to unveil a disturbing truth.