Medicine audiobooks

Love Your Sister

By: Samuel Johnson & Connie Johnson

Narrated by: Connie Johnson & Samuel Johnson

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Brothers and sisters often dare each other to do things - it's what siblings do. However, when Connie Johnson dared her brother Samuel to embark on a one-wheeled odyssey around Australia, she knew it was a big ask. But Connie knew exactly what she was doing and was sure he wouldn't say no. Not this time.
Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel... Read more

The Evil Hours

By: David J. Morris

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as polio loomed over the 1950s and AIDS stalked the 1980s and 1990s, post-traumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's veterans. But the disorder's reach extends far beyond the armed... Read more

He Wanted the Moon

By: Mimi Baird & Eve Claxton

Narrated by: Jane Alexander, Paul Boehmer & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner

A Washington Post Best Book of 2015

A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.
 
Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in... Read more

The Autoimmune Solution

By: Amy Myers

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 90 percent of the population suffers from inflammation or an autoimmune disorder. Until now, conventional medicine has said there is no cure. Minor irritations like rashes and runny noses are ignored, while chronic and debilitating diseases like Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis are handled with a cocktail of toxic treatments that fail to... Read more

The Brain's Way of Healing

By: Norman Doidge, M.D.

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now a new afterword.

Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology  

In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding... Read more

Unchain Your Brain

By: Daniel G. Amen & David E. Smith

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex?When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill.Do you want to break free... Read more

Resilience

By: Jessie Close & Pete Earley

Narrated by: Jessie Close & Glenn Close

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York,... Read more

The Day My Brain Exploded

By: Ashok Rajamani

Narrated by: Ashok Rajamani

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to be reborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past, reclaiming a life, and coping with the societal prejudice inflicted on those with traumatic injury. With humor, spirit, and insight, he describes the... Read more

The Patient Will See You Now

By: Eric Topol, MD

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology is poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a... Read more

Can Exercise Prevent Breast Cancer

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Trevor Clinger

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Having witnessed my mother's battle with breast cancer, I am on a mission to empower individuals worldwide in fortifying their defenses against this disease. Recognizing that a breast cancer diagnosis impacts not only the patient but the entire family, I advocate for the role of exercise in promoting overall health and potentially preventing... Read more

Lower Your Blood Pressure

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep relaxation and a simple breathing exercise help your body slow down, relax, balance.Blood pressure responds naturally to heart rate and breathing. As a general principal, as you slow down your breathing, your heart responds, as does your blood pressure. This program combines deep relaxation with a simple breathing exercise to help your body... Read more

Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole

By: Dr. Allan H. Ropper & Brian David Burrell

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Allan H. Ropper inhabits a world where absurdities abound:




— A figure skater whose body has become... Read more

Ebola

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter IsaacsonIn 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90... Read more

The Best Sleep Ever: Melatonin

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Saoirse Ní Shúilleabháin

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As a personal trainer, I've faced occasional sleep troubles without resorting to alcohol or medications that could harm my health in the long run. After extensive research, I've discovered a supplement that has revolutionized my sleep quality, leaving me feeling refreshed and rejuvenated each morning. In this concise guide, I unveil the wonders... Read more

Ebola

By: Laurie Garrett

Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Where does Ebola originate? How does it spread? And what should governments do to stop it? Few people understand the answers to these questions better than Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett.

In this masterful account of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire, Garrett, now the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign... Read more

What Your Body Knows about God

By: Rob Moll

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever had an experience where you felt particularly aware of God? If God is real and we are created in God's image, then it makes sense that our minds and bodies would be designed with the perceptive ability to sense and experience God.Scientists are now discovering ways that our bodies are designed to connect with God. Research shows... Read more

Doctored

By: Sandeep Jauhar

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Sandeep Jauhar, an attending cardiologist, accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade’s worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights.




Instead, he is confronted with... Read more

The Soul of All Living Creatures

By: Vint Virga, DVM

Narrated by: Vint Virga, DVM

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired... Read more

The Malaria Project

By: Karen M. Masterson

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.

American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the German... Read more

The Hardest Peace

By: Kara Tippetts

Narrated by: Patty Fogarty

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding grace in the everyday…Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer.In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace... Read more

Move Your DNA

By: Katy Bowman

Narrated by: Katy Bowman

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

”Move Your DNA is a landmark in explaining biomechanics."- Dr. Joan Vernikos former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals. This new expanded edition of the bestselling Move Your DNA features an exercise glossary and three-level exercise program, accessible to audiobook listeners in the FREE EXERCISE... Read more

Study Finds Half of U.S. Adults at Risk for Health Problems Relates to Elevated Blood Sugar

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One out of three Americans over 20 is pre-diabetic and another 29 million already have diabetes. According to a recent report, the risk for some cancers is 15 percent higher for someone with higher-than-normal blood sugar. Gwen Ifill speaks with Dr. David Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, about how to... Read more

Foods for Health

By: Barton Seaver & P. K. Newby

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For health-conscious cooks, clean eaters, and smart consumers, National Geographic introduces a science-based guide to healthy, everyday eating for your whole family—and the planet. Featuring dozens of tips, food pairings, and sample menus, this book is a culinary tour of the 148 foods that have huge nutritional value with the least... Read more

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
 
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when... Read more