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After an exchange student with bubonic plague turns up in a Reno hospital, a contractor with identical symptoms dies in Los Angeles. The government‘s official stance is that the cases are isolated and the outbreak is under control. But George Mack, a 30-year public health veteran, quickly realizes this is no ordinary plague. The death toll is too high, and the spread pattern make no sense. As Reno’s hospitals fill with victims, Mack begins to believe that there is more to the epidemic than the CDC is letting on - and that he must take drastic steps if he hopes to save his city.

Seit einem verheerenden Unfall, der ihn als Siebenjährigen für immer zeichnete, versteckt Michael seine Brandnarben vor der Welt. Doch vor allem kann er nicht verkraften, dass er damals zur Adoption freigegeben wurde. An der Filmhochschule begegnet Michael Jahre später Professor Robert Dunning, der seine eigenen Narben mit bemerkenswerter Offenheit trägt. Ermutigt von dessen Beispiel, startet der junge Mann ein Dokumentarfilmprojekt und entdeckt hinter perfekten Fassaden Menschen, die wie er mit ihrem Spiegelbild kämpfen.

If you go, there's no coming back. Dr. Georgia Healey can't grieve. Her nineteen-year-old daughter, Stephanie, stepped out for a walk two years ago and never returned. No body. No answers. Just an open wound that refuses to heal. On the anniversary of Stephanie's disappearance, Georgia isn't ready to let go — not yet. She retraces every step her daughter took, determined to question everyone: students, professors, ex-boyfriends, anyone who might hold a sliver of truth. But the truth isn't always a comfort. And what Georgia uncovers is far more terrifying than she ever imagined.

Eine dramatische Häufung unerklärlicher Nebenwirkungen ruft die WHO-Expertin Dr. Laura Delille auf den Plan. Unfruchtbarkeit, Fehlgeburten und Tod greifen um sich. Erste Spuren führen zu einem neuartigen genbasierten Impfstoff. Doch als sich die Symptome weiter verschlimmern und auch Menschen erkranken, die nie damit geimpft wurden, wird klar: Hier geht es um mehr als krasse Nebenwirkungen. Während Laura den rätselhaften Ursachen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent nachspürt, heftet sich der Reporter Hugh Stevens an ihre Fersen.

The victim of an unspeakable crime, an infant rises to become a new type of superhero. Unlike any that have come before him, he is not a fanciful creation of animators; he is real. So begins the saga of Robert James Austin, the greatest genius in human history. But where did his extraordinary intelligence come from, and why do so many want to destroy him? Aided by two exceptional women, one of whom will become his unlikely lover, Austin struggles against abandonment and betrayal.

A legal and political thriller ripped from today’s headlines. Michael MacDougall volunteers for a medical aid charity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Traumatized by his experiences in Africa, he goes down a path that he never would have imagined possible, resulting in a global manhunt and a riveting trial.

A cure for aging is all the rage these days, with scientists only a few decades away from extending life to 150 years or more. So when Dr. Ben Peterson is offered twenty million dollars to develop the so-called Body Fortress Drug—a cure for all disease—he was surprised as anyone when he actually did it! However, along the way, he also developed the opposite, a drug that leaves the body susceptible to ALL diseases . . . the perfect biological weapon.

After fleeing Los Angeles during the last, desperate throes of the DRYP pandemic, medical resident Susan Barry and critically injured oil company executive Alan Wheeler know their toehold on survival in rural Liberty Valley won't last. They need food, fuel, and help. At first, they reach out to other survivors by radio, but when a mysterious code starts, the other survival colonies disappear from the air one by one.

Dr. Strangeways meets the only woman he has ever really cared for, the hermit-like yet mysterious Angelina Frood, a striking young actress stalked by many demons. Tragedy strikes and the good doctor will do anything to solve the mystery. Following a chance encounter, he begins a correspondence with the famous Dr. Thorndyke, hoping that the medico-legal hybrid, a metaphorical centaur or merman, with a doctor's head and a lawyer's tail, can solve the case.

Hamburg 1959: Die junge Psychiaterin Renate Schwarz steht am Beginn einer vielversprechenden Karriere. Sie muss sich in der männerdominierten Medizinwelt zwar täglich behaupten, doch mit ihrem Verlobten Matthias, einem talentierten Profifußballer, scheint ihr privates Glück perfekt. Bis eine Knieverletzung seine Karriere abrupt beendet und beide vor neue Herausforderungen stellt. Während Renate zwischen schwierigen Patientenfällen und Familiendramen navigiert, weckt eine ihrer Patientinnen ihr Interesse: Sie behauptet, die Industrieabwässer einer Hamburger Fabrik würden die Elbe vergiften.

Der bewegende Auftakt der neuen Reihe über eine junge Ärztin im Hamburg der Fünfzigerjahre, die ihren Weg sucht und die Liebe findet. Von Bestsellerautorin Melanie Metzenthin Hamburg 1958: Voller Elan tritt die junge Ärztin Renate ihre erste Stelle in der Psychiatrie an. Sie merkt jedoch schnell, dass sie als Frau nicht mit offenen Armen empfangen wird. Durch einen Vorfall in der Klinik lernt sie den charmanten Matthias kennen, der am Anfang seiner Karriere als Profifußballer steht. Sie gehen miteinander aus, aber Renate zögert, sich auf ihn einzulassen.

At the close of the 24th century, a series of revolutions has caused the galaxy to descend into chaos. With the Galactic Union Army stretched thin, mercenary units have arisen for those who have the need - and the means - to hire them. Kay, the alien member of the Cutter Force Initiative, has returned to her brutal home world of Vast on a mission of mercy. Before she joined the merc team, she was a great healer. And now her skills are sorely needed. Hundreds of Vastalimi - including her blood-kin - are mysteriously dying. But is the plague a work of nature? Or is it a bioengineered virus, purposefully unleashed?

Den smarten schwäbischen Notfallmediziner Dr. Benny Brandstätter treibt es nach der abenteuerlichen Zeit in Costa Rica zurück nach Stuttgart - im Schlepptau sein neunmalkluger Sohn Tobi. In der alten Heimat trifft er auf liebenswerte Bekannte, wie den Gitarristen Dobro, die Ex-Kollegin Fatima und natürlich Frau Winterberg, die schräge Vermieterin. Der neue Posten in einer allgemeinmedizinischen Praxis und die Dienste im Notarztwagen bringen erneut skurrile Patientengeschichten mit sich. Der alleinerziehende Vater wäre nicht mehr er selbst, sorgten nicht Begegnungen mit der Damenwelt für Turbulenzen.

You just can't plan for this kind of thing. Diane Tate certainly hasn't. She never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. As a respected family court judge, she's spent her life making tough calls, but when her 68-year-old husband's health worsens and Diane is forced to move him into an assisted living facility, it seems her world is spinning out of control. As Gregory's memory wavers and fades, Diane and her children must reexamine their connection to the man he once was - and learn to love the man he has become.

Uno dei più famosi racconti cechoviani in cui si narra una storia ancora attualissima: uno squallido ospedale di provincia, i matti trattati come bestie, uno strano filosofo paranoico e un dottore in crisi con la professione e con il mondo intero. L'epilogo tragi-comico è in puro stile cechoviano.

Tra i racconti attribuibili agli inizi del Novecento, si trova Lo specifico del dottor Menghi,12 già compiuto nel 1904. In quest’opera la tematica
economico-sociale assume una connotazione diversa, rispetto ai racconti del decennio precedente: Svevo si accinge a sottolineare la negatività dei risultati della scienza medica finalizzati all’arrivismo, mero successo personale.

Fuori dalla finestra della camera d'ospedale i raggi caldi del sole d'estate accendono un nuovo giorno radioso che però la protagonista del racconto non vedrà mai tramontare. Mentre la sua esistenza, senza alcun preavviso, decide di concludersi, nei pochi minuti che le restano, quali sono gli ultimi pensieri che occupano la mente, quali le immagini che si affacciano dal passato, quali ricordi affiorano e tra tutti i rimpianti, quali sono quelli ancora capaci di pungere il cuore prima che la coscienza si offuschi?