Titres dans Mondes médical et médico-légal

When Diane fails to return from the village shop, police think she must have taken off with a secret lover, but Harper is convinced the online messages are not from her. In the same Hampshire village, plucky seven-year-old Clara has retreated into a make-believe world after an accident. Then she, too, goes missing. As Harper sets out on a desperate quest to find them both, he has no idea what he's up against. Could the threat be closer than he thinks? And is there a hidden message in Clara's fairytales?

Milan, Italy, today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero?

Tempe Brennan ist forensische Anthropologin in Montreal. Skelette und verweste Körperteile gehören zu ihrem Alltag. Als die 23-jährige Isabelle missbraucht, erdrosselt und zerstückelt in Müllsäcken aufgefunden wird, erinnert sich Tempe an einen Fall ein Jahr zuvor. Sie versucht, die beiden Verbrechen mit drei weiteren Leichen in Verbindung zu bringen. Doch Detective Luc Claudel nimmt sie nicht ernst.

In 1975, Montreal is changing. Dr. James McKnight, wunderkind of the ER in a prestigious hospital, is finding it difficult to play well with others. He works hard at delivering medical miracles. When a beautiful suicide ends up in his morgue, things start to spiral out of control, for him and her only friend Benny, a mentally ill recluse.

After her friend Dallas Jackson suffers a fatal complication during routine surgery, Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is determined to find out why. Dallas was like a father to Camille, and she feels she owes it to him and his family to get answers. Knowing she could lose her partnership at her high-profile law firm for undertaking such an investigation, Camille takes a huge risk and starts her own firm, determined to bring Dallas’ killer to justice.

Dr Rea Dharmasena is devastated when she loses out on her dream research job to her med-school rival, Dr Julia Stone. When it comes to light that Julia got the job using Rea's own cutting-edge research, Rea just can't let it go. Until finally, just after a life-changing medical discovery, Julia is found dead. Now Rea has the dream job she's always wanted. A job she would kill for.

When Dr Anna Diaz moves from an urban practice in Cardiff to take on a new job in Bly, a remote village in rural Wales, she finds a community reeling from the unexpected death of their last GP and a startling number of curious rare medical conditions. Among them, a young woman who has become so hairy she looks like an ape, a farmer who is growing new bones, a teacher who hasn't slept for a month, and an old man who has gained enormous amounts of weight and has horns growing out of his head. Deeply unsettled, the locals feel something viral and horrendous is happening to them...

Das hochspannende Finale der Evolution-Reihe! Was passiert, wenn der Mensch Gott spielt? Ella, Ben und Gabriel fliehen immer noch vor Nicolai und der Operation Darwin. Dabei werden sie mit der erschütternden Wahrheit konfrontiert: Die einzige Hoffnung auf Freiheit ist die gewagte Manipulation der menschlichen DNA. Dafür spielen die Zwillinge eine entscheidende Rolle, denn ihre Gene sind der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and lifestyle to predict how much—or little—time you’ve got left. That’s all well and good, but he’s also bought them for his daughter, his grandchildren, and even his eleven-year-old great-grandson. He wants them each to wait until their next birthday to use the app. But whether they scoff at it, sneak an early look, desperately turn into a health nut, or die before their appointed time, the gift is wreaking havoc.

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.

So what if your medical skills are the best in the world? If you can’t live past 20, your just a lousy show off. Let’s watch as the perverse ghost doctor make a name for himself by defeating the world’s greatest medical giants in his efforts to revitalize Chinese medicine.

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.

In the quiet town of Elmhurst, where secrets fester like toxins, a simple pond holds the key to unraveling a web of deception that spans generations. Meet Jared, a battle-scarred Navy SEAL whose quest for peace becomes a battle for survival when the town's poisoned pond threatens to expose the darkness lurking beneath the surface. Bobbie Jo, the enigmatic neighbor with secrets of her own, may hold the answers Jared seeks, but her motives are as murky as the pond itself.

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.

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.

Ein verschworenes Dorf. Eine Reihe mysteriöser Morde. Eine abgelegene Villa mit einem dunklen Geheimnis. In einer Gaststätte nahe dem Dorf Wüstrup taucht eines Nachts ein blutüberströmter Mann auf und bricht tot zusammen. Kriminalkommissar Christoph Harms soll klären, ob es sich um Mord oder einen Unfall handelt. Nur einen Tag später wird ein Mann bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Christoph ahnt, dass es nicht bei zwei Toten bleiben wird. Tatsächlich erlangt der Ermittler bald Gewissheit, dass ein Serienmörder in Wüstrup seine blutige Fährte legt. 

Renowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his office door and prepares for a relaxing evening. But what follows is a living nightmare when later he is discovered in a locked-in coma, the victim of an auto-erotic asphyxiation. It is left to Doctor Kash Devan, Trenchard's young protégé, to uncover the truth. And what he discovers is chilling...In his ruthless pursuit of wealth and success, Trenchard has left a trail of wrecked lives, and angry people, behind him. Which of Trenchard's victims hated him so much that they wanted to ruin not only his reputation, but his life as well?

Mid-winter, St. Andrews, Scotland: When a university lecturer fails to turn up for class, he is found dead at home, with evidence of having committed suicide. A female student reports to the police that she was having an affair with him and knows he would never commit suicide. Toxicology results turn up Class A drugs in his system, and DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate, DS Jessie Janes, are called in to investigate.

March 4,  1918. An army cook at Fort Riley, Kansas reported to the infirmary with a temperature of 103.1 degrees fahrenheit. Within two days, another 521 men became sick. It is one of the first recorded outbreaks of what came to be known as the Spanish flu. Living in the country, we fared better than those who lived in crowded conditions in the big cities. We were like one big, happy family, living in different houses. We held barn raisings, outdoor festivals, and church picnics. But at last, the plague of 1918 found us too, and that silent killer was about to drag us into hell.

Hans och Kristin är ett medelålders par som båda jobbar inom vården i ett lagom stort svenskt samhälle. Gradvis blir deras grå vardag alltmer dramatisk när deras patienter och anhöriga drabbas av ett mystiskt sjukdomsutbrott. Den burdusa och karriärlystna Eva, överläkare på sjukhuset, tar befäl över situationen och spelar ett allt högre spel. Efterhand ansamlas tecknen på att smittspridningen är avsiktlig - men av vem, och varför?