Ergebnis für "Virus" in Akademiker & Spezialisten

When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, "There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved." Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease - the Ebola virus - was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS.

An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. "A memoir that reads like a thriller." -New York Times Book Review "A fascinating and terrifying peek into the devastating...

Una bambina attratta dalla scienza, poi studentessa di veterinaria con la passione della ricerca. Una donna determinata a raggiungere i propri obiettivi personali e professionali che diventa una scienziata di livello internazionale, il cui contributo allo studio dei virus è riconosciuto in Italia e all'estero. Una storia positiva di successo, finalmente, in un Paese come il nostro in cui non si fa che parlare di cervelli in fuga... Purtroppo no.

THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the...

An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author...

Maneater is a personal account by a specialist who approaches her work like a forensic scientist or a case-hardened private eye. Dr. Pamela Nagami is a leading authority on infectious diseases and her stories will shock, amaze, and warn readers. The patients in Maneater are ordinary Americans...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the BC doctor who has become a household name for leading the response to the pandemic, a personal account of the first weeks of COVID, for readers of Sam Nutt's Damned Nations and James Maskalyk's Life on the Ground Floor. Dr. Bonnie Henry has been called "one of the...

Raffaele Bruno è un medico, da un anno è Direttore della Clinica di Malattie Infettive al Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia. A gennaio, come molti dottori italiani, viene a sapere di un nuovo virus, che stava iniziando a far vittime in Cina: il SARS-CoV2. Ancora non può immaginare che, neanche un mese più tardi, si troverà a dover curare Mattia, un giovane uomo di Codogno, il primo paziente italiano conosciuto. È con la sua malattia che il Covid-19, rimasto fino a quel momento un'idea spaventosa, diventa una realtà presente e terribile.