Medical Science Fiction

In this thought-provoking short story by Robert Wicks, listeners will be taken on a journey to a future where a vaccination called the sanity vaccine threatens to erase everything that makes us unique. Join a young boy who dares to dream of writing poetry and creating art in a society that discourages such pursuits. As fears grow that the sanity vaccination is losing its effectiveness, the existence of Patient 926, untouched by the vaccine, raises questions about the importance of preserving creativity and individuality.

Anton Çehov tarafından yazılan kısa hikaye “6. Koğuş”, 1892 yılında “Palata No.6” adıyla Rusça basılmıştır. Küçük bir kasabada yer alan bir akıl hastanesinde geçen hikaye, İvan Gromov adındaki bir hastayla hastane müdürü Andrey Ragin arasındaki felsefi çatışmayı konu alır. Gromov gördüğü her türlü adaletsizliği açık ederken, Dr. Ragin bu adaletsizlikleri ve kötü muameleleri göz ardı etmekte ısrarcıdır; hatta bu tavrı yüzünden, akıl hastalarının olduğu koğuşun kötü şartlarını da görmezden gelmeye çalışır.

This is a fictional story based on real scientific and medical facts. It is the story of an infection of Toxoplasmosis gondii and Leucochloridium paradoxum, the first acquired by contact with cat feces and the second acquired from snails. The horrifying thing is that these two have evolved ways to control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their demise. It is also a love story between two neurotic people who cannot cope with a world where their anxiety rules everything.

Das hochspannende Finale der Evolution-Reihe! Was passiert, wenn der Mensch Gott spielt? Ella, Ben und Gabriel fliehen immer noch vor Nicolai und der Operation Darwin. Dabei werden sie mit der erschütternden Wahrheit konfrontiert: Die einzige Hoffnung auf Freiheit ist die gewagte Manipulation der menschlichen DNA. Dafür spielen die Zwillinge eine entscheidende Rolle, denn ihre Gene sind der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

New paramedic Dean Flynn is fresh out of the academy. When he gets assigned to the unknown backwater ambulance Station U, he wonders what he did wrong. Then he learns his patients aren't your normal 911 callers. Dean and his partner, Brynne Garvey, serve the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. With patients who are vampires, werewolves, fairies, and more, will Dean survive his first days on the new job? Will his patients?

Grace Lord, combat surgeon in training, has just landed her dream job aboard a medical space station. Attacked by a powerful, gorilla-enhanced combat soldier the moment she steps onto the station, she quickly realizes this assignment will be far from typical. She treats the wounded space marines of the Conglomerate under the watchful eyes of stalking androids who all look alike and a mentor with a serious case of megalomania. Meeting a drop-dead gorgeous psychiatrist almost makes it worth it, until the station docks with a mysterious vessel.

So what if your medical skills are the best in the world? If you can’t live past 20, your just a lousy show off. Let’s watch as the perverse ghost doctor make a name for himself by defeating the world’s greatest medical giants in his efforts to revitalize Chinese medicine.

Hat die nächste Stufe der Evolution bereits begonnen? Am Universitätsklinikum München entdeckt die Radiologin Ella Schwarz bei einigen ihrer Patienten mysteriöse Gehirnveränderungen. Was zunächst wie eine medizinische Anomalie erscheint, entpuppt sich schnell als düsteres Geheimnis von ungeahntem Ausmaß – denn mehrere Betroffene haben bereits Selbstmord begangen. Oder wurden sie kaltblütig ermordet? Gemeinsam mit dem MRT-Techniker Ben Martens versucht Ella herauszufinden, was sich hinter den Kulissen abspielt.

Assisted dying is legalized after the NHS sell-off. Where does the killing stop? The sick and old are no longer a societal burden, healthcare costs plummet, and inventive end-of-life options emerge. Geraldine, Dawn, Jeffrey, and Woody each book their final journey at Go Gently's Charon House clinic. What they find doesn't match the brochure.

In the year 2042, Dr. Seth Kelley, a dedicated emergency physician, is on the brink of burnout due to his demanding and high-stress career. Amidst an evolving healthcare landscape, the imminent rise of automated medical practitioners presents both challenges and opportunities. Seizing a chance to partake in this transformative movement, Seth accepts a position at a groundbreaking hospital conducting a clinical trial in the use of artificial intelligence to revolutionize patient care.

Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancee—takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can be an astronaut once more. . .

It's 1966, and RAF pilot Dan Stewart awakes from a coma following an aircraft accident into a world where nothing seems to make sense anymore. Not being able to recall the crash might be expected, but what about the rest of his life? And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage that's causing paranoia about the red pill, or is Dan right to think something sinister is going on? The first in a dystopian trilogy based on the author's command of a top secret government unit.

The second wave of the Siberian Flu catches the country completely unprepared. Instead of killing the old and frail, the young and healthy are dropping . . . in hours, not days. Kate, a new doctor, will sacrifice everything to break her and her sister free from a controlling stepfather and a dead-end small town existence. Moments from landing the critical job she needs, St. Louis falls apart around her.

In this novel, a profiteering pharmaceutical executive seizes upon an opportunity to turn the discovery of a new cancer-preventing drug into a massive industry-competitive advantage for his company and his own personal financial gain. Using ruthless individuals with deadly skills and intent, the executive tries to nefariously obtain the necessary molecular synthesis protocol to create the next generation of oncologic drugs.

CDC researcher Nadine Parker and her team are baffled. Lukas Behn’s daughter Kyndra has contracted a bizarre new virus that leaves her screaming in pain. But they can't identify any physical, biological source for that pain, not in Kyndra, nor in the dozens, then hundreds, and finally millions of children worldwide succumbing to the same virus. And no one seems to have made a connection between what's happening with the infected children and the events on a small coral reef in the South Pacific.

A doctor discovers that his mother’s world-renowned female cancer treatment has an intentional side effect. He solves the moral dilemma with tragic consequences and becomes embroiled in a deeper conspiracy.

After surviving a terror attack that took her husband, Lucy is trying to rebuild her life for her two teenage children. She makes the decision to move them all to an off-grid mountain community. Away from the insanity their life had become, their temporary solution becomes a permanent way of living. Lucy believes she is giving her kids the perfect life, and a way of living that they truly want. Until the day her son, Vincent, decides to leave without saying a word. Lucy and her daughter, Avery, leave their secluded life to search for him in the nearby town.

In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have also vanished recently - all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company.

Keine 24 Stunden. Dann naht das ENDE DER WELT. Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten hat gerade eine Fernsehansprache gehalten, da löscht vor den Augen der Welt ein Raketenangriff das Weiße Haus aus. Kurz danach überleben Travis Chase und Paige Campbell nur knapp ein Bombardement auf ihre Forschungsstation tief unter der Erde von Wyoming. Was steckt hinter diesen Angriffen? Ein jahrzehntealtes Geheimprojekt?

Spring in die Zukunft! Rette die Welt! Ein unscheinbares Gerät mit ungeheurer Macht: Es stellt eine Schleuse in die Zukunft her. Forscherin Paige Campbell wagt als erste den Blick ins Morgen. Und sieht nichts als eine tote Einöde: Ruinenstädte und Knochenberge. Offenbar steht das Ende der Menschheit schon in wenigen Wochen bevor - es sei denn, Paige und ihr Partner Travis finden heraus, welche Kräfte unsere Zivilisation zu zerstören drohen.