Medical Mysteries Fiction

The Theory of Irv provides a suspenseful journey through not just the storyline of the book’s plot, but an overview of American health policy. How it came to be a hundred years ago. How it has adapted in the last several decades. Perhaps more importantly, how we can fix it so we can have better health and health care for all Americans into the future.

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

Thatcher unravels malpractice, fraud, and more that leads to murder among doctors in a hospital environment.

In NoFear, an experimental drug developed to treat anxiety becomes a weapon of global destruction. Dr. Duncan MacGregor is called upon to investigate the dangerous side effects of the drug known as NoFear—a compound that removes fear entirely but leaves addiction and chaos in its wake. When the drug is weaponized to destabilize governments and spread violence, Mac must race against time to stop a worldwide catastrophe.

Mandera, im Nordosten Kenias: Die X1-Mandera-Pandemie breitet sich wie ein Flächenbrand aus - und ist kein biologisch-evolutionärer Zufall. Berlin: Ein Mann erwacht in seinem Zimmer im Concord Hotel und hat das Gedächtnis verloren. Mit ihm im Raum befinden sich die Leiche eines ihm unbekannten Mannes sowie ein Zettel mit einem seltsamen Code darauf. Atlanta: Die Ärztin Peyton Shaw wird von den kenianischen Behörden kontaktiert, um sich der mysteriösen Seuche anzunehmen. Sie findet heraus, dass ein ganzes Kartell geheimnisvoller Firmen, Institutionen und Organisationen die Pandemie mit einer finsteren Absicht steuert.

A closely-observed, panoramic thriller about medical science gone wrong, and the people who make dangerous pills seem safe. It’s Manhattan in the winter of 2010, and Shivani Patel is carrying the secrets of a trade that no one understands: medical ghostwriting. A Cambridge-trained scientist and wordsmith for the world’s largest drugmaker, she makes her soaring pay by delivering the sleight-of-hand needed to move new drugs into journals and onto market. Then she watches as a parade of aging males take credit for her work.

Dr. Cornelius O'Brien brought his new girlfriend, psychotherapist Neve Keane, tohis home country of Ireland for a romantic getaway. There’s just one thing they need to do first: a personal favor for the President of the United States. It was supposed to be simple: check on the president’s goddaughter, who is struggling with a strange medical problem while studying abroad in Cork City. But with every step, Neve and Cornelius find themselves first slipping, then plummeting toward a terrifying, clandestine world at the abyss of human suffering.

"מחדל רפואי!" זעקה הכותרת בעמוד הראשי,"בתו היחידה של המיליונר בייליס מתה בניתוח רשלני." גוש עבה חסם את גרונו של נועם. רק לפני כמה שעות זה היה בסך הכול עוד ניתוח שהסתבך. עכשיו, ממנתח צעיר ומבטיח הוא הופך לאויב הציבור מספר אחת. כמה ימים לפני שהחל הכול הם כלל לא הכירו. נועם דנציג עסק בשגרה המתישה של רופא מנתח בבית חולים; יעל לוי העסיקה את עצמה במחשבות על חופשתה. ואז מגיעה נערה צעירה אל שולחן הניתוחים של נועם דנציג, ובתוך שעות ספורות מתחיל מרוץ מסחרר שמפגיש את השניים והפוך אותם בעל כורחם לשחקנים ראשיים בעלילה שהם עדיין מנסים להבין.

Sometimes, a seemingly small event can trigger an explosion. In New York City, in the time of Corona, an eccentric surgeon is forced to watch helplessly as a seismic disruption in human rights and freedom unfurls right before his eyes. On the opposite side of the world in Wuhan, another physician/historian and expert in the Tao uncovers suspicious and murderous circumstances in the death of Wenliang Li, one of the first tragic casualties of the era that launched a worldwide coup.

Globales Unheil bahnt sich an. Die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, bricht auseinander. Die komplette Sleepless-Serie vom preisgekrönten Bestsellerautor Andreas Brandhorst. Das Hamburger Start-up Harmony bringt ein neues Medikament auf den Markt: "Sleepless". Es bietet Menschen die Möglichkeit, teilweise oder ganz auf Schlaf zu verzichten, ohne müde zu werden. Sie gewinnen also Zeit, die sie bisher schlafend verbrachten, als Lebenszeit hinzu. Doch schon bald wird klar: Immer mehr Menschen leiden nach der Einnahme des Medikaments Sleepless an Psychosen und mentalen Veränderungen.

A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles. Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners). STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that these organs are not distributed by the national transplant list, established to allocate organs fairly.

A chilling attack. A race against time. Trust no one. Dr. Kristi Chiro thought she'd seen it all in the high-stakes world of hospital IT security. But when a rogue team of hackers infiltrates her hospital, she finds herself in a race against time to save lives and protect the very technology meant to heal. As patients' vital signs spiral out of control and chaos engulfs the hospital, Kristi and her team must navigate a treacherous landscape of cyber warfare, where every beep of a monitor could signal life or death. But this is just the beginning.

Cassie Raven ist mehr als mehr als eine Assistentin, sie ist die Stimme der Toten. Ihr ungewöhnlicher Gothic-Look hat Cassie schon immer schräge Blicke eingebracht und auch ihr Job in der Rechtsmedizin ist alles andere als gewöhnlicht. Doch wie ungewöhnlich genau, damit hatte auch die toughe Cassie nicht gerechnet. Als ausgerechnet Cassies Mentorin Mrs Edwards bei ihre auf dem Tisch landet, ist sich Cassie sicher, dass das nur Mord gewesen sein kann.

En una trama de intriga que se desarrolla en América, África, Asia, y Europa los personajes de Los Hijos de Eva se enfrentan al dilema de conseguir al ser humano perfecto y resistente a la enfermedad. El agente del FBI Mark Swire, especializado en sectas, recibe una última misión: infiltrarse e investigar a la nueva, rica y creciente secta Los Hijos de Eva, que predica la vuelta al Edén y el fin de la enfermedad mediante la erradicación del gen del Pecado Original, que, según la secta, cada ser humano ha heredado de la Madre de todos los vivientes: Eva.

A journalist with a history of bending the facts uncovers a story about a medical breakthrough so astonishing it needs no embellishment - but behind the game-changing science lies a gruesome secret.

America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative.

Dopo Il Diario Segreto di Edgar Stone, la storia continua con un nuovo diario scritto da Javier Ruiz, un messicano cresciuto a Miami che decide di andare a cercare la sua fidanzata scomparsa, Amy Williams. Il cambio di narratore altera la prospettiva, offrendo una visione più emotiva e meno scientifica. L’amore e la passione prendono il posto dello scetticismo e il pragmatismo. La storia si svolge in un’area molto più ampia, dando la possibilità di scoprire alcuni dei retroscena celati nel diario di Edgar Stone. Alcuni vecchi personaggi riemergono mischiandosi a nuovi eroici avventurieri.

Qian Choi is the leader of a Hong Kong–based triad deeply involved in pharmaceuticals. Her daughter-in-law, Jazz, formerly a sex slave in Saudi Arabia, is now prime minister of the new country of Vancouver. Hong, also married to her son, is forced to leave Hong Kong for fear of the CCP. Qian runs afoul of Big Pharma who is trying to force her to sell out. Lauren—a former assassin, widow of Qian’s former husband, unwillingly pressed back into service—stages a violent rescue and goes on to settle the score with dangerous, ruthless people.

Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives—making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo re-emerges in America, they must set aside their differences in order to stop a potential worldwide epidemic. Using the blood of one woman who is immune to the disease, they create a serum that might work—if the disturbingly cunning virus doesn't have plans of its own.

Once thought to be pure academic legend, scientists recently found proof of the existence of viruses thousands of times larger than ordinary viruses. So far all have been innocuous, but what if one was a human pathogen? While drilling for oil in the desolate reaches of the Arctic, an unsuspecting company extracts a permafrost ice core that has been frozen for 30,000 years, accidentally releasing a "megavirus".