The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field of xenotransplantation--the transplantation of organs from one animal species to another.
In Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into Humans, David Cooper and Robert Lanza explore what may become one of the greatest medical advances of the 21st century. As scientists...

Murder and mystery reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country, killing all in its path. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Center for Disease Control investigates--and soon uncovers the medical world's deadliest secret.

Dr. Marissa Blumenthal's dream of becoming pregnant has turned into an obsessin. A Successful pediatrician, she will try any scientific method available to conceive. Until the horrible secrets of an urban clinic erupt in a nightmare of staggering proportions.

Robin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong has managed to isolate a psychotropic drug with a strange and dark history--one that may account for the public hysteria during the Salem witch trials. In a brilliant designer-drug transformation, it is developed into an antidepressant with truly startling therapeutic capabilities. But who can be sure the drug is safe for...

Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it...With chilling accuracy and riveting suspense, Robin Cook portrays the struggle of one family searching for the truth from a corporation and a medical establishment all too willing to ignore the fate of one little girl...

Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives--and their sanity--irrevocably at risk...

Posited on up-to-the-minute science, Shock is a spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by the bestselling master of medical...

These "nerve-wracking hospital horrors" (Chicago Sun-Times) will definite ly heat up sales. Two doctors suspect something is very wrong at the enormous medical center where they work. And soon they will put their careers--and their lives--in deadly jeopardy, as they penetrate the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad. "Unnervingly plausible".--Los Angeles Times.

For instance, in one poem he compares a magpie's flight to the constant flickering of a silent black and white movie screen. In another, he shares with his readers the remarkable encounters he's had with a curious red fox, thereby somewhat dispelling the creature's sly reputation. Robin's anthropomorphic writing style displays his vivid imagination. In addition, Robin offers his readers distinct perspectives regarding social issues and milestone events of our day. He is truly an old school practitioner, and his philosophical musings seem to be carved from the cornerstone upon which the Old...

A medical mystery thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.