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Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital's supposedly secure biosafety lab. Meanwhile,...
2) Flawless
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Leaving his job at the Centers for Disease Control to build a new life in San Francisco, Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is confronted by a vicious murder that takes him from the high-tech labs of the cosmetic industry into a dangerous, high-stakes black market.
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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.
4) Terminal
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At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a one-hundred-percent success rate. Sean Murphy, a young medical student, finds it hard to believe. Is it a miracle cure? Or the biggest con job in the history of medicine?
5) Seizure
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Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of a new cloning procedure, and Senator Ashley Butler, the conservative chairman of a subcommittee on health policy, make an unethical and underhanded bargain when Butler promises government support for Lowell's technology if the doctor will use it to treat Butler's Parkinson's disease.
6) Arrowsmith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
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1160L
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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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"Janessa McNeil's husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a researcher and professor at Stanford University's Department of Medicine, specializes in tick-borne diseases--especially Lyme. For years he has insisted that Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist. Even as patients across the country are getting sicker, the committee Brock chairs is about to announce its latest findings--which will further seal the door shut for Lyme treatment. One embittered man sets out...
8) Cure
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"...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...." --inside front cover.
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A medical thriller featuring Dr. Edward Armstrong, a researcher developing an anti-depressant drug. Under pressure from his backers to complete the research, he experiments on himself with disastrous effects. But with millions of dollars at stake, the backers hush up the results and when Armstrong's sweetheart, Kimberly Stewart, decides to blow the whistle, she puts both their lives in jeopardy. By the author of Fatal Cure.
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In the shadow of the nation's capital, Kate Livingston holds a respectable position as a government statistician when she encounters a rival from her past, the insufferable Trevor McDonough. A Harvard-trained physician, Trevor never showed the tiniest flicker of interest in Kate, and she's bewildered at the way he suddenly seeks her out. Surprising even herself, Kate agrees to Trevor's entirely unexpected and risky proposal to work side-by-side with...
11) The fifth vial
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A suspended Harvard Medical School student is kidnapped and left for dead in Rio de Janeiro, while a terminally ill medical genius works on a potentially world-changing cure, and a Chicago detective struggles to identify a mysterious accident victim.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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730L
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Writer Helen Bradley checks herself into Dr. Kincaid's convalescent home in order to investigate the mysterious deaths of the doctor and his wife. Is someone trying to protect the secrets of Dr. Kincaid's anti-aging products?
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She just needs a little longer. She's really close. Dr. Rebecca Jackson, a medical researcher, stands on the verge of a breakthrough that will transform medicine. But she soon discovers the reason behind the miraculous progress in her research, and it leaves her with a nearly impossible choice and little time to decide. More than her research is at stake. And more threatens it than this latest revelation. Something she's tried hard to cover up. There...
14) The proposal
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While attending a writer's conference in Washington, D.C., Theodora Russell gets a call from an editor who wants to discuss her proposal. During their meeting, however, Theodora discovers that the editor actually wants Theodore Russell and his latest novel. Before she can correct the misunderstanding, Theodora becomes intrigued by the proposal tossed into her lap-a proposal that links breast cancer with first-pregnancy abortions. Determined to do...
15) The magic bullet
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1995.
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A medical thriller in the world of breast cancer research. It begins when two researchers develop a new treatment based on a drug invented in Japan before World War II. No sooner done, than the backstabbing begins as people vie for fame and funding, some even stooping to sabotage. By the author of Hoopla.
16) Mind catcher
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2002
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When a thirteen-year-old boy falls victim to an accident that damages his brain, two scientists combine their ground-breaking research to push the boundaries of human consciousness.
18) Deadly exposure
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Joanna Blalock novels volume 5
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Forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock faces a challenge that has implications for the continuance of life on Earth when she is called in to uncover the secrets of a murderous extraterrestrial toxin discovered in a deceptively beautiful iceberg off the coast of Alaska.
19) Infinity's child
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[1997]
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New Hampshire newspaper editor Sally Benedict is about to have a baby, and researchers will stop at nothing to get it because it carries special genes that can provide mankind with eternal longevity.
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