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Carla is a young doctor striving to become the first female surgeon at a prestigious Melbourne hospital. When a consultant post opens up, she competes with her lover for the job and thinks she can be judged on merit. But an assault after a boozy workplace dinner leaves her traumatised and struggling to cope with the misogyny coming from every corner of her workplace. Recovering her fragmented memories from that night, Carla begins a fight for justice which will shake the foundations of the hospital she loves.

When inexplicable human rabies cases appear in Tennessee, disease ecologist Letty Duquesne jumps at the chance to trace the virus back to its source. But the closer Letty gets to finding the outbreak's origin, the further someone will go to stop her. With an unwanted promotion threatening to take Letty far from the fieldwork she loves, this outbreak feels like her last chance to make a difference. It's not something she can ignore, especially now. The spillover of zoonotic diseases to the human population is on the rise and violent animal attacks are becoming all too common.

Following the death of a patient in her care, Radha begins taking Valium to control her anxiety. She tells herself she’s fine, but as the pressures of being a perfect wife, mother, and daughter mount, her little habit spirals into addiction. When she’s forced to find a new source of pills, she stumbles into the clutches of Glasgow’s underworld. A mistake that could cost her everything. They give her an impossible choice: face personal and professional ruin or have blood on her hands by helping them deal. As she fights to protect all she holds dear, can she protect herself?

When too many patients die under his watch, a troubled young doctor suspects murder. But are his instincts to be trusted? Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in...

Neuropsychiatrist Cristina Silva cannot escape her past. The voice in her head of her former identity won’t let her. Cristina also can’t quite manage to force herself to forget the ex-boyfriend she dumped: handsome police detective Gary Wilson. Soon after beginning her new job at the Longwood Memory Center, Cristina receives a startling phone call from her contact at the FBI: an assassin is crisscrossing the country, killing anyone connected to the now-defunct pharmaceutical company ReMind—people like Cristina. The shadowy criminal enterprise Zero Dark is back.

Michelle DePalma expected to jet into Two Wells, Texas, check on her elderly mother, and hurry back to her orderly life in Atlanta, where she has a happy marriage and satisfying career. Instead, she finds her mother, Lola Hanson, hovered over the bludgeoned body of her caregiver, Brittany Landers. Since the events of 9/11, one month earlier, Lola's memory loss has amplified, and the family suspects Alzheimer's. Now Lola can't tell anyone what happened to Brittany.

Liza Larkin, a recent med-school graduate on the cusp of her pathology internship, isn’t like most people. She would rather study the human brain or pound the heavy bag at the gym than spend time with others, and as an outsider she doesn’t let societal norms confine her. So when a stranger’s picture sends Liza’s schizophrenic mother deeper into psychosis, Liza does a reverse-image search to identify him. Upon discovering he is a trauma surgeon at a Massachusetts teaching hospital, she impulsively changes her pathology residency program of choice to his center.

People are dying in Dr. Joshua Salvador's ER. His medical assistant, only weeks from delivering her baby, hangs on to life by a thread. The symptoms seem horrifyingly familiar, and he begins to suspect the deaths are targeted at him. But before he can figure things out, top TV investigator Rachel Wright is standing in the middle of his ER, convinced an outbreak, an epidemic, or even a botched flu vaccine could be the cause, and she's going to tell the world.

There’s something strange going on at Clearwater Psychiatric Hospital. Director Dr. Norman Gill has a list in his desk drawer. He keeps it locked away. It’s for his eyes only. The list has seven names, with seven dates. Seven deaths in 11 months. Harry Starke will have to sharpen his skills for this one. Is there a lunatic loose in the hospital? A staff member, a patient? Does someone else have a list, and if so...how many names are on it?

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Lucas Grafton has spent the last ten years hunting the Conclave, a secret organization who took everything from him, including his very identity. Now he has a lead—an imminent terrorist attack on London—codenamed "Descartes." Jenna Young can't believe she was attacked and barely escaped with her life. Now she's on the run with a stranger and racing against the clock. With only a note left by her father after his death, telling her to use the codeword "Descartes" to get the pills that slow the progression of her illness, Jenna has only days before her body will start to deteriorate.

Campagne anglaise, 1958. Le village idyllique d'Olney St. Mary s'était maintenu dans son environnement paisible pendant plus de 900 ans. Jusqu'au jour où deux adolescents sont frappés par une mystérieuse maladie. Le docteur Hilary Newton, nouvellement arrivée, soupçonne une grippe banale d'être à l'origine de leur maladie. Très vite, le docteur et les habitants d'Olney St. Mary sont plongés dans un cauchemar, alors que la maladie ravage la population locale. Bien que les médecins utilisent les derniers médicaments disponibles, le nombre de morts ne cesse d'augmenter.

Eine junge Patientin stirbt in den Flammen, eine zweite wird vermisst. Welche Rolle spielt Psychiater Jungbluth, Chefarzt der forensischen Klinik? Die erste Staffel des Psychothrillers "Der Ornithologe" von Beststellerautor Tibor Rode und Ina Wolff fesselt mit 3D-Audioeffekten und Vogelstimmen, die ein düsteres Geheimnis verbergen.

Dunja Hougaard has gone underground to covertly investigate her former boss, Sleizner. For months, Dunja and her team have been gathering information. When a high-ranking man within the Danish intelligence service and an unknown woman are found dead at the bottom of a lake outside Copenhagen, the trap is finally ready to close. The only question is: whom will it catch? And meanwhile, on the other side of the strait in Helsingborg, the Swedish police Fabian Risk detective receives a message that changes everything.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Du weißt, etwas stimmt nicht. Doch niemand glaubt dir... Endlich ein neuer Fall für Rizzoli & Isles von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Tess Gerritsen! Der brutale Mord an einer Krankenschwester hält Detective Jane Rizzoli und Gerichtsmedizinerin Maura Isles in Atem. Noch in Arbeitskleidung wurde ihr der Schädel eingeschlagen. Hat sie einen Dieb überrascht oder hat jemand auf sie gewartet? Was Jane da gar nicht gebrauchen kann, ist ihre Mutter, die sie permanent wegen der vermeintlich entführten Nachbarstochter anruft.

Doctor Stephenson's day-to-day routine of caring for animals is shattered by the apparently random murder of his lifelong friend. He and his hound, Lucinda, are drawn into the investigation. Kent soon suspects that small-town politics surrounding a new resort have led to murder, and that it won't end with just one victim. When a nameless toddler is found wandering alone by the river, all bets are off. As he unravels the mystery, Kent struggles with a new love interest and a sense of helplessness, as he fights the medical battle of his career to save his daughter's prize stallion.

Una organización secreta compuesta por políticos, miembros de la realeza y la élite financiera urde un plan misterioso llamado "Operación Inuit". El periodista Antonio Villegas descubre el plan y aparece muerto en extrañas circunstancias. Paralelamente, la joven doctora Eulalia Martín observa cómo aumentan estrepitosamente los casos de leucemia para los pacientes que consumen un medicamento sospechoso.

In The Methuselah Gene, Michael S. Maurer’s mesmerizing medical thriller, Alex Morton, a talented but unorthodox scientist, undertakes the care of little Jimmy Higgins who suffers from one of the rarest diseases in the world, progeria, a genetic mutation that grossly accelerates the aging process. Alex’s study of progeria yields staggering discoveries about the mother of all diseases, aging. What Alex does not know is that Mother Nature jealously guards her secrets and that his newly developed therapies will lead to calamitous unintended consequences.

A Sulrano, nel cuore della Grecia Salentina, si muore ancora per il morso della taranta. Questo, almeno, il significato che i paesani danno alle morti che puntuali colpiscono due volte all'anno, nel corso delle celebrazioni che si concludono con la festa di San Paolo. Le autopsie confermano la presenza del veleno del ragno, ma Gelsomino è convinto che Sulrano sia solo un luogo dimenticato dallo scorrere del tempo e che, all'ombra dell'ignoranza dei suoi abitanti, qualcuno stia uccidendo indisturbato.