Medicine audiobooks

Osteoporosis, Exercise, And Prevention: What You Need To Know

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Richard Frances

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a journey of knowledge with this insightful book, as it unveils the intricate facets of osteoporosis beyond its surface definition of mere bone loss. Designed to be more than just a preventative manual, this guide offers proven strategies aimed at slowing down the progression of osteoporosis for those already grappling with the... Read more

Working Stiff

By: Judy Melinek, MD & T. J. Mitchell

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation—performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving... Read more

Beyond Addiction

By: Jeffrey Foote, PhD, Carrie Wilkens, Ph.D., Nico...

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical... Read more

Shocked

By: David Casarett

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Not too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication.

As a young medical student, Dr. David Casarett was inspired by the story of a two-year-old girl named Michelle Funk. Michelle fell into a creek and was underwater for over an hour. When she was... Read more

How God Changes Your Brain

By: Andrew Newberg, MD & Mark Robert Waldman

Narrated by: James C. Lewis

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

God is great—for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies and a wide-reaching survey of people's religious and spiritual experiences, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, MD, and therapist Mark Robert Waldman offer the following breakthrough discoveries:
Not only do prayer and spiritual... Read more

The Climb

By: Chris Froome

Narrated by: Patrick Doherty

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the revealing, inspirational memoir from the British winner of the Tour de France.
The Climb tells the extraordinary story of Chris Froome's journey from a young boy in Kenya, riding through townships and past wild animals, and with few opportunities for an aspiring cyclist, to... Read more

Briana Scurry on concussions

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s been so much excitement surrounding the World Cup — and it has been an amazing tournament so far — that one almost feels like “Debbie Downer” to talk about some of the problems facing the sport of soccer. But at a time when there’s more attention surrounding concussions, it felt like it was also the right time to sit down with former... Read more

Buzz

By: Katherine Ellison

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"An absorbing, sharply observed memoir."
-Kirkus Reviews

A hilarious and heartrending account of one mother's journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son-a true story sure to beguile parents grappling with a child's bewildering behavior.

Popular literature is filled with the stories of self-sacrificing mothers bravely... Read more

Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels

By: Michele Root-Bernstein & Robert Root-Bernstein

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with wit and narrative force, Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels is an enriching excursion into the world of folk medicine. The award-winning team of Robert and MichelE Root-Bernstein provide a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of medical traditions. In addition to the honey, mud, and maggots used in wound therapy, the... Read more

Where Does It Hurt?

By: Jonathan Bush & Stephen Baker

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry

Where else but the doctor’s office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in other industries drives prices down, but in health care... Read more

The Big Fat Surprise

By: Nina Teicholz

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestsellerNamed one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2014Named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014Forbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that... Read more

No Place to Hide

By: W. Lee Warren

Narrated by: Chip Arnold & Henry O. Arnold

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital.Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable, if... Read more

The Disease Delusion

By: Jeffrey S. Bland

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we’re masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than... Read more

How Have I Cheated Death?

By: Tim Wotton

Narrated by: John-Paul Nicholas

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK's most common life-threatening diseases, affecting over 10,000 people. There's currently no cure. Not all that long ago, a CF diagnosis meant an early death. Tim Wotton is one such sufferer, who was told from an early age that he would not live beyond his 17th birthday. One of the oldest survivors of this... Read more

Where Memories Go

By: Sally Magnusson

Narrated by: Sally Magnusson

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand. Words. Then, as the enormity of the social crisis my family was part of began to dawn, I wrote with the thought that other forgotten lives might be nudged into the light along with hers. Dementia is one of the greatest social, medical,... Read more

Inheritance

By: Moalem MD PhD

Narrated by: Moalem MD PhD

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.

INHERITANCE

Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's groundbreaking book shows us that the human... Read more

Inheritance

By: Moalem MD PhD

Narrated by: Moalem MD PhD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.

INHERITANCE

Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's groundbreaking book shows us that the human... Read more

The Remedy

By: Thomas Goetz

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world' s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB-- often called consumption-- was a death sentence. Then, in triumph of... Read more

Murder on the Home Front

By: Molly Lefebure

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1941. While the "war of chaos" rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below.

One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the "horrors of secretarial... Read more

The End of Diabetes

By: Joel Fuhrman

Narrated by: Joel Fuhrman & Chris Sorensen

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and Super Immunity and one of the country’s leading experts on preventive medicine offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetes—without drugs.At last, a breakthrough program to combat the rising diabetes epidemic and help millions of diabetics, as well as... Read more

Um Leben und Tod - Ein Hirnchirurg erzählt vom Heilen, Hoffen und Scheitern (Ungekürzt)

By: Henry Marsh

Narrated by: Dominic Kolb

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Der New York Times- und SPIEGEL-Bestseller. Wie arbeitet ein Hirnchirurg? Wie fühlt es sich an, in das Organ zu schneiden, mit dem Menschen denken und träumen? Wie geht man damit um, wenn das Leben eines Patienten von der eigenen Heilkunst abhängt? Und wie, wenn man scheitert? Mehr noch als in anderen Bereichen der Medizin ist es in der... Read more

The Diet Fix

By: Yoni Freedhoff M.D.

Narrated by: Yoni Freedhoff M.D.

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With The Diet Fix, weight loss expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff offers a groundbreaking, useable guide to begin living happily while losing weight permanently.

It is time to break the cycle of traumatic dieting. Despite the success stories publicized by Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, and others, 90% of all diets end in failure. How can we fix... Read more

The Depths

By: Jonathan Rottenberg

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly... Read more

Cured

By: Nathalia Holt

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Is the end of HIV upon us? Award-winning research scientist and HIV fellow at the Ragon Institute, Nathalia Holt, reveals the science behind the discovery of a functional cure and what it means for the millions affected by HIV and the history of the AIDS pandemic.

Two men, known in medical journals as the Berlin Patients, revealed answers to a... Read more