Ergebnis für "Mark" in Medizin

With his signature blend of suspense and science, Robin Cook delivers an electrifying page-turner that delves into the murky ethics of developing genomic medicine and modern-day health care...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

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:

Juan Gutierrez, ein Krebsforscher, untersucht seit vielen Jahren das Erbgut von Tieren, bei denen sich eine Immunität gegen bestimmte Krebsarten nachweisen lässt. Im Verlauf seiner Forschungsarbeit entdeckt Juan ein bestimmtes Muster, das es ihm ermöglicht, die Evolution einer Spezies über tausende Generationen hinweg vorherzusagen.

Es ist ein sonniger Oktobertag in North Carolina: Tempe Brennan, die forensische Anthropologin, wird zum Schauplatz eines Flugzeugabsturzes gerufen. Zusammen mit Spezialeinheiten der Polizei begibt sie sich an die Bergung der Opfer und ihre anschließende Identifikation - ein grausames Puzzlespiel, zumal sich herausstellt, dass ein Großteil der 82 Passagiere sehr jung war. Einige Tage später findet Brennan nahe der Unglücksstelle einen menschlichen Fuß.

Was, wenn eine jahrhundertealte Seuche aus der Arktis zurückkehrt? Als in Berlin Obdachlose an Milzbrand sterben, ist Wissenschaftsjournalistin Nina Falkenberg alarmiert. Die Fälle erinnern an ein Ereignis in Alaska vor 10 Jahren, als das Auftauen des Permafrostbodens einen tödlichen Erreger freisetzte. Ebenfalls in Alaska verschwindet Ninas Freund, der Milzbrand-Forscher Gereon Kirchner. Nina bittet ihren Bekannten Tom Morell, dorthin zu reisen und herauszufinden, was passiert ist. Schon kurz nach Toms Ankunft taucht in einem Eistunnel eine Frauenleiche auf.

Toxic Minds is Anthony Lee’s medical thriller where healthcare collides with disinformation and a hateful mind losing touch with reality is the most dangerous of all.

With the US in chaos, the government, ensconced in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, enacts Presidential Directive 40, declaring a national emergency. FEMA, now a militarized police force, rules over the remnants of society with an iron fist, establishing civilian work camps and enforcing martial law to maintain control.

Internationally respected Boston heart surgeon Max Dent, MD, a former Mossad assassin, completed his guest lecture in Paris. After leaving the conference center, two men confront him and shoot the surgeon with a tranquilizing dart. Days later, his head clears, and he finds himself restrained in a small jet. The kidnappers brought him to a hospital in Tehran, where he assisted a former heart surgery fellow whom he had trained in life-saving surgery on the dying ayatollah, the supreme leader of Iran.

Tragedy strikes America’s darling three-year-old Thoroughbred, Hyperion, when he’s injured in a Kentucky Derby qualifying race. Doctors Mark Thurman and Claire Hodgson are asked to treat his broken limb using their revolutionary fracture-healing methods, but when former experimental subjects begin developing a life-threatening form of cancer, the rescue plan is halted. Then, a serendipitous discovery suggests a new drug made from a rare plant source might be a cure. A flicker of hope is kindled for Hyperion and the stricken patients.

On a small poultry farm located in Delaney, Georgia, an antigenic shift causes the H7N9 bird flu virus to jump to other species. The contagion burns through everything in its path despite the federal government’s ham-handed efforts to mask its true nature. The unprecedented mortality rate paralyzes the nation and paves the way for establishing FEMA’s martial law across the country.

Thorax is a medical thriller that takes listeners from Pennsylvania to Russia to San Diego—and opens a curtain to an insider’s view of the operating room—as a grieving, widowed doctor learns how far a father will go to save his child. And how far his own chest will open to hold new love.

London, 1628. Nicolaes de Pelgrom, assassin and devoted servant of George Villiers, will do whatever his master asks of him—even if that means enduring the perilous voyage to the Indies to exact a grieving widow's revenge. Making that same journey is Jeronimus Cornelisz, a conniving apothecary determined to escape the backstreets of Amsterdam and become rich beyond imagination. Hired by a criminal mastermind to escort precious cargo to the Indies, he will kill anyone who stands in his way.

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.

In todays digital world, no one is safe from cyberattacks. Not even medical doctors and hospitals. Can a hacker remotely kill a doctor's patients just by altering medical records? Dr. Mark Lin, a proficient but cynical and disillusioned internist, is the target of such a hacker, known as Doctor Lucifer.

Former Naval Special Warfare Development Group orthopedic trauma surgeon Mark Thurman and preeminent scientist Claire Hodgson have discovered how to create human bones and heal fractures in days. They test their revolutionary methods on Mark’s ex-SEAL Team colleague, John Bristow, who was shot and left for dead after an altercation at his farm.

A clergyman is murdered in his bed in the dead of night, triggering a chilling chain of events, each more bizarre and unnerving than the last – brutal killings, corpses vanishing, decomposed bodies digging their way out of graves. These shocking events seem unconnected but, at each scene, people report witnessing swarms of flies – hundreds, thousands, even millions of them.

This breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson, a leading Bay Area HIV/AIDS physician, follows three people from vastly different backgrounds, who are thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives. Kevin, a gay medical resident from working class Boston, has moved to San Francisco in search of acceptance of his sexual identity. Herb, a middle-aged supervising physician at one of the nation’s toughest hospitals, struggles with his own emotional rigidity.

A terrifying enigma – with the power to destroy… Twenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at a research centre where scientists hunted for a cure for the common cold virus. That summer, Kate fell in love with a handsome young doctor, Stephen, but her stay ended in his tragic death and...

What would it feel like to be young again when you turn 60? Six members of the Vicious Circle, are returned to their physical prime with a gene therapy that will leave them young and beautiful for a century. They must negotiate the trials of love, relationships, and parenting in their renewed selves, all while hiding from the terrible truth about the cost of their new lives.