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3) Geneva
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invite to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
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Sent to report on the doctors working with the new drug penicillin at the outset of World War II, Claire Shipley falls in love with physician James Stanton, but the suspicious death of James' sister leads Claire to wonder if her estranged father, the head of a pharmaceutical company, is involved.
5) Vitals
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After a terrifying attempt on his life, scientist Hal Cousins finds himself trapped inside an ever-twisting maze of shocking revelations. He is not the first person to come close to uncovering the key to immortality, and those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep the secret to themselves.
6) On, off
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Realizing that a brutally slain young woman is the latest victim of a serial murderer, a Connecticut police detective traces clues that identify the killer as one of several secretive employees at a world center for neurological research in 1965.
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Many people sincerely believe that all vaccines are safe, adverse reactions are rare, and no peer-reviewed scientific studies exist showing that vaccines can cause harm. This book - Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies - provides the other side of the story that is not commonly told. It contains summaries of 400 important scientific papers to help parents and researchers enhance their understanding of vaccinations.
8) Arrowsmith
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IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
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"Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, which won him the Pulitzer Prize …which Lewis declined. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools...
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Este texto, dirigido a estudiantes y docentes, hace énfasis en la conceptualización, las estrategias y los métodos aplicados tanto a la investigación en salud, como a la investigación social. La obra, resultado de la práctica académica de la autora, está conformada por nueve unidades que contienen información teórica, ejemplos y actividades de aplicación que permitirán al lector la máxima comprensión del proceso de investigación y el...
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En Ciencia y vida. Mi verdad, Antonio Alcaide se nos muestra como lo que es: un científico con una gran vertiente humanista. En cada capítulo desgrana sus aportaciones en líneas de investigación punteras, tanto en investigación académica como aplicada, sin olvidar los aspectos humanos que han rodeado su vida en cada una de las etapas de investigador y profesor universitario en distintos países.
La obra describe de forma muy comprensible capítulos...
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The book reveals a new look at medicine and Health Care System as a factor that significantly influences the history of mankind as a species. Considering the well-known facts from a different angle, systematically filed material clearly and simply traced the history of mankind from a medical point of view. It turns out that the medical profession had great influence on the destiny of mankind, creating additional opportunities for those populations...
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In interviews with brilliant and controversial medical researchers and practitioners, David Jay Brown reveals "proposed solutions for what's wrong with modern medicine, ideas about reversing the aging process and suggestions that can lead to a future in which all diseases are easily curable." Interviews with Andrew Weil, Jonathan Wright, Barry Sears, Garry Gordon, Jacob Teitelbaum, Marios Kyriazis, Peter Duesberg, Kary Mullis, Durk Pearson & Sandy...
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Get the Summary of Carol Tavris & Avrum Bluming's Estrogen Matters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Estrogen Matters" delves into the contentious history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and its relationship with breast cancer, menopause, and women's health. The book scrutinizes the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, which influenced public perception and medical practice by linking HRT to increased breast...
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"Writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction that stalked families and caused a mother's immune system to attack her own unborn child. This story is anchored by two very different men: Dr. John Gorman in New York who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and the unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood--and his unyielding devotion to donating it-- saved 2.4 milion lives"--from jacket.
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In this ground-breaking book, Professor Tracey McDonald, RSL LifeCare Chair of Ageing at the Australian Catholic University, explores some of the many issues arising from an ageing population, ageing veterans and community health. Many of the projects presented in the book have been awarded Better Practice Awards by the Australian Government and provide inspiration to aged care service providers keen to improve their services. Professor McDonald has...
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This is Dr. Kathleen Ruddy's landmark book that gives an extraordinary glimpse into the history of breast cancer research, and the findings that support the theory that a mouse virus that causes breast cancer in mice, and has also been found in rats, cats, dogs, and monkeys plays a significant role in 40-94% of human breast cancer. Researchers contend that we are one step away from having final proof of this. Print run 20,000.
20) Buffalo Medicine
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Veterinarian Jed McCane becomes caught in the middle of a fierce battle between ranchers and environmentalists when locals begin to slaughter endangerd wild bison when they wander outside of Yellowstone National Park and onto land grazed by cattle.
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