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Selbst auf einer paradiesischen Insel lauert tödliche Gefahr – ein neuer Fall für die Forensikerin Tempe Brennan. Eine Reihe bizarrer Mordfälle führt die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan auf die karibischen Turks- und Caicos-Inseln. Stehen die grausam verstümmelten Leichen junger amerikanischer Touristen in Zusammenhang mit Bandenkriminalität? Je tiefer Tempe recherchiert, desto beunruhigendere Dimensionen nimmt der Fall an. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Mittelpunkt einer Verschwörung wieder, die viele Hunderte Menschenleben kosten könnte.

From international best-selling author Rob Horner comes Into Darkness, the highly anticipated and thrilling continuation of the Richards’ family saga begun in Brightness. The Richards were a regular family living in suburban South Carolina—Michael, Nicole, and their three beautiful daughters, Sarah, Karie, and Sofie. Then Sarah saw a demon, and their world turned upside down. Now they live in North Carolina, and it seems as though things are getting back to normal.

Scientists have developed a way to vaccinate entire cities without consent or the possibility of refusal. The theory is sound, but something goes wrong, and a highly contagious combination of virus and prion is unleashed, a middle-stage organism too dangerous to test.

Dopo quella notte, niente è più stato lo stesso. 15 anni fa, dopo che una serata di festa è stata distrutta da una violenta aggressione, Sara Linton ha deciso di rivoluzionare la sua vita. Adesso è una dottoressa di successo, fidanzata con l’uomo che ama. Il passato è definitivamente alle spalle. O almeno così spera. Finché una sera, durante un turno in pronto soccorso, Sara viene chiamata a visitare una ragazza che è stata brutalmente assalita.

From pathologist and "Erica Rosen MD" author Deven Greene, TIES THAT KILL is a gripping medical thriller in which a professor recovering from a stroke discovers that he has many half-siblings who may carry the same blood clot risk he does—but someone out there is trying to kill them all. Soon he is in terrible danger even as he must prove his innocence in a series of murders connected by one thing: DNA.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

It’s not that I stood out that much. Raised by a Marine father and a kick ass Marine wife, our life has always had a sense of order to it. I like that. Plans don’t fail. You fail to plan. Only, I didn’t plan for MJ.

Events start to unravel when the system closes in on a bewildered family. The middle class cossetted family life they had enjoyed and loved. The only life they knew, starts to implode with devastating effects. The perfect family unit enjoyed by so many was the plan, this was not the script. The perfect family who for generations enjoyed paid education, wealth, and privilege. This privileged life had allowed them to build a beautiful family, stunning home, and high net worth social circle in sunny Nottingham.

Le nouveau roman de Carène Ponte vous embarque à New York sur les planches de Broadway ! Ginger a toujours été une battante dans la vie. Partie de rien, elle a créé avec succès son restaurant et l'a géré de main de maître pendant dix ans. Quand le cancer a pointé son nez, il n'était donc pas question de se laisser aller. Mais ce matin-là, alors que le médecin lui annonce une récidive, Ginger accuse le coup.

Camille is a nurse specialising in supporting families through the difficult decision to donate the organs of their dying loved ones. Camille's mother is a gifted but uncompromising transplant surgeon determined to make it in a man's world until her own life falls apart. And Camille herself is a mother to Addie–five years old, critically ill and in desperate need of the very organs her mother and grandmother work with.

This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating consequences.

Can you trust your medical test results? A shocking exposé uncovers labs putting profits ahead of patients. Regulatory action promises to restore faith in the system, but can it? Pathologist Dr. Sophie Cadeaux suspects a hidden agenda to divert attention from the real cause of false lab results. She raises the red flag to protect patients, but those with vested financial interests in the status quo stand in her way. Personal danger lurks in the shadows. Can she keep patients safe in spite of the risks?

A former child prodigy, she has been educated in one of the best medical schools under the supervision of the prestigious Daniela McKenna. At the age of twenty-seven, she moved from Boston to Los Angeles in search of a smaller hospital that would allow her to grow faster as a surgeon. Little did she expect that by a quirk of fate, she would find herself as interim chief of surgery, fighting for the permanent position against much more experienced doctors.

For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man’s-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side. Martin’s pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore. Although the local coroner determined her death was an accident, Ellie and Rachael soon confirm Martin’s gravest fear: His daughter was murdered.

Dr Olivia Winter is a forensic psychologist whose job is to understand the minds of serial killers. There’s only one monster she can’t understand, her father.

Hope, healing, and happily-ever-afters: lesbian medical romances with heart to heal hearts.

This is a fictional story based on real scientific and medical facts. It is the story of an infection of Toxoplasmosis gondii and Leucochloridium paradoxum, the first acquired by contact with cat feces and the second acquired from snails. The horrifying thing is that these two have evolved ways to control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their demise. It is also a love story between two neurotic people who cannot cope with a world where their anxiety rules everything.

Katie, a stoic young Native American, faces family pressures, a developing distant romantic relationship, and stress from nursing school clinicals during her junior year at Crestmont University in Dallas. Her dream of becoming a nurse is challenged when her mother suffers an injury that could force her to stay on the farm, assume her mother’s duties, and postpone her education, perhaps permanently.

Wenn das Schicksal einen grausamen Plan für dich hat. Ist Spastik heilbar? Ben ist seit seiner Geburt Spastiker und wird immer wieder mit dieser Frage konfrontiert. Das Schicksal hält eine grauenhafte Antwort für ihn bereit. Ben hat einen schweren Autounfall, bei dem seine Beine völlig zerstört werden. Er liegt im Koma, und die Ärzte sind sich nicht sicher, ob er wieder erwacht und wenn ja, wie wird der Heilungsprozess mit seiner Krankheit harmonieren? In Amerika in scheint es Hoffnung zu geben. Ein Hirnforscher ist dabei, Elektroden zu entwickeln, die dem Patienten helfen sollen.

Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting.