Medical Discoveries

Rosalind Franklin The Unsung Hero of DNA Discovery is an illuminating and deeply human portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant yet underappreciated scientists. Far beyond the familiar narrative of a single photograph, this audiobook explores the full sweep of Franklin’s remarkable career, revealing a woman whose intellectual discipline, technical mastery, and unwavering pursuit of truth reshaped modern science.

Dr. Arthur Noble is a brilliant first-year medical resident in San Francisco, who has a stellar career ahead of him. However, all of Noble’s skills are put to the test when he encounters a strange new illness. The ailment seemingly appears out of nowhere, and serves its victims a most horrible and brutal death. Noble struggles to find answers to the medical mystery, even as many researchers and society refuse to believe it is a serious threat, or that it even exists. 1980 is an authentic medical story about a disease that will eventually have an unimaginable impact on the entire world.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets...

What would you do if you woke up with part of your memory erased, your fiancée missing, and the most dangerous secret in the world locked inside your own mind? When neurosurgeon Dr. David Thomas regains consciousness in a locked room with twenty-one fresh stitches across his head, he remembers only one thing with absolute clarity: Charlotte, his fiancée. But Charlotte is gone. Their home has been destroyed, and the last two months of David’s life have vanished without a trace. As memories return in violent flashes, one chilling truth becomes impossible to ignore: someone wanted them ...

It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the 11-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to 45 pounds, skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases - a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition, and fistfights.

The Untold Legacy: Royal Rife's Revolutionary Discoveries and Controversial Impact" is a comprehensive exploration of the life and achievements of Royal Rife, a brilliant scientist and inventor. The book delves into Rife's early life and education, his groundbreaking inventions and discoveries, and his most notable creation, the Rife Microscope. It also examines the opposition and controversy that surrounded Rife and his work, shedding light on the challenges he faced from the medical establishment and the scientific community. In the book, readers will discover Rife's revolutionary ...

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery...

A doctor begs his colleagues to wash their hands. They laugh at him. Thousands of mothers keep dying. A scientist leaves a petri dish uncovered by accident and discovers the drug that will save more lives than any other in history. A surgeon opens a man’s chest and holds his beating heart. Inside Medical Pioneers, the latest volume in the bestselling Famous in STEM series, you’ll meet the extraordinary doctors, surgeons, and healers who transformed medicine from guesswork into science and the dramatic, often heartbreaking stories behind their breakthroughs. Discover the healers who ...

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals and their discovery, from the London laboratory where the concept of hormones was identified to a basement filled with jarred brains to a canine sex lab.

From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration and exile, Walter Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psychotic Excitement" described, for the first time, lithium's astonishing efficacy at both treating and preventing the recurrence of manic-depressive episodes, and would eventually transform the lives of patients, pharmaceutical researchers, and practicing physicians worldwide.

In the pristine beaches of Costa Rica, former Navy SEAL and emergency physician Dr. Michael Bond seeks solace following a complicated CIA operation. When brilliant Danish neuroscientist Dr. Lyra Myrkvæld crosses his path with revolutionary Alzheimer's research, Bond is drawn into a world where cutting-edge medicine collides with corporate greed. Lyra's groundbreaking treatment—Memora—could save millions from dementia's grip. But her commitment to making it freely available worldwide has made her a target. As powerful pharmaceutical interests close in, Bond finds himself protecting both...

A revolutionary historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man’s journey from penniless Irish girl to one of most celebrated and accomplished figures of his time. "Gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" —Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me Beginning in Cork...

A tiny mutation on the X chromosome can shape a family’s history. Passed down from a “carrier” parent to a child, fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism. Beyond that—and a rarity among genetic disorders—some fragile X carriers not only transmit the mutation, but also experience related conditions themselves.

A five-star hotel. A deadly pathogen. A conspiracy of silence. At the opulent Grand Majestic Hotel, the 82nd Airborne is celebrating a reunion. But when the guest of honor collapses in the middle of a speech, it’s just the first casualty in a terrifying outbreak. Dr. Holly Hammond, a brilliant but junior infectious disease fellow, recognizes that this is no ordinary flu. The symptoms are too strange, the progression too fast, the deaths too sudden. As the body count climbs and the hospital fills with victims, including a young, healthy bartender , Holly realizes the source must be the ...

"Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile "A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about...

ROBIN COOK--New York Times-best selling author and master of the medical thriller--returns with another crackling tale of unchecked greed, medical malfeasance, adn starling science. PIA GRAZDANI is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's...

Are you ready to unlock the secret blueprint the top 0.1% of the world’s highest performers use to win in life — every single day? Science proves that your success is never one-size-fits-all — because you’re not. From your Chronotype (your circadian rhythm code) to your Ayurvedic Dosha (your mind-body blueprint) to your Western Personality Type and your Learning Style — these four pillars shape how you think, love, work, and thrive. 🧬 The Human Blueprint combines the best of East and West: modern chronobiology, timeless Ayurvedic wisdom, cutting-edge personality psychology, and...

Rediscovery of Insulin A Study by Academician Constantin Ionescu-Tîrgoviște Rediscovery of Insulin is a landmark historical and scientific investigation into one of the most consequential medical discoveries of modern times—the identification of insulin. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, archival research, and newly uncovered documents, Academician Constantin Ionescu-Tîrgoviște offers a rigorous re-examination of the events surrounding insulin’s discovery and its subsequent clinical application. At the heart of this study lies a fundamental distinction too often blurred by ...

Did it ever come to your mind if masturbation is actually good or bad? Why most teenagers are puzzled about it? Why so many men have sex related issues now than ever before? Is masturbation a slow killer of your health and sex life? Modern science and most people until now think of masturbation as harmless, and semen as mostly for procreation and entertainment. This book will open your mind to the secrets of this powerful ‘ingredient’ in the body as to what really semen is, and reveal the grave negative effects masturbation creates on mind, body, and society. Never before, one may have ...