Medicine audiobooks

The New Bible Cure for Osteoporosis

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Tim Lundeen

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

You can prevent - and even reverse - bone loss. How strong are your bones? In this concise audio book, you’ll discover a wealth of information that will help you build and maintain healthy bones no matter what your age. Learn biblical secrets about health and the latest medical research on how to overcome osteoporosis. Dr. Colbert has taken the... Read more

The New Bible Cure for Depression and Anxiety

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Tim Lundeen

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

There is hope!  You can overcome depression and anxiety. Do you suffer from depression or anxiety? In this concise, easy-to-listen-to audio book, you’ll discover a wealth of information that will help you break free! Dr. Colbert has taken the confusion away from depression and anxiety and made them simple and easy to understand. Incorporating... Read more

The New Bible Cure for Sleep Disorders

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Tim Lundeen

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you give for a good night's sleep? Do you spend too many nights tossing and turning? Do you wake up in the morning still feeling tired? Uncover God’s natural plan to refresh, rejuvenate, and restore you. In this concise audio book, you’ll discover a wealth of practical suggestions to help you win the battle against sleep disorders.... Read more

101 Theory Drive

By: Terry McDermott

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist—malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious, consistently brilliant. He is one of the foremost figures of contemporary neuroscience, and his decades-long quest to understand the inner workings of the brain's memory machine has begun to... Read more

The Big Picture

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of groundbreaking surgical procedures and a doctor who turns impossible hopes into joyous realities. But where does this incredible drive and focus come from? According to Dr. Carson himself, the answer is simple: The Big Picture.Every day when Dr. Carson went to work as a surgeon, he had to make... Read more

The Poisoner's Handbook

By: Deborah Blum

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their... Read more

Happy

By: Alex Lemon

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed poet Alex "Happy" Lemon takes listeners on a journey of addiction, tragedy, and survival in this memoir. With an aneurysm in his brain, Lemon becomes trapped within the wreckage of his 19-year-old, stroke-ravaged body. But as he plunges into depression and longs for death, his mom's life-affirming determination urges him to... Read more

Making Rounds with Oscar

By: David Dosa

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An otherwise ordinary cat—he’d sooner give you his back or a sideways glance than curl up on your lap—Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people are about to die. Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the three-year-old tabby has presided over the deaths of more than twenty-five nursing home... Read more

Eternity Soup

By: Greg Critser

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires—the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the... Read more

An Unquiet Mind - Abridged

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison... Read more

The Language of Life

By: Francis S. Collins

Narrated by: Greg Itzin

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

""His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year: The... Read more

In the Mood Again

By: Genie James & C. W. Randolph

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Is a lower libido inevitable with age? Not necessarily, contend hormone experts Genie James and Dr. C. W. Randolph. The real sex-life saboteur is hormone imbalance, which is compounded by stress, lack of sleep, wrong food choices, and a sedentary lifestyle. In the Mood Again offers a medically proven solution to safely and naturally restore... Read more

YOU: On A Diet Revised Edition - Abridged

By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As they did with the revised edition of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz have updated their classic, international bestseller on diet. This nearly three million copy seller is filled with new information on emotional eating, the latest fad diets, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and over a hundred recipes.

For the first time in our... Read more

The Checklist Manifesto

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous... Read more

Frozen

By: Scott Baldyga & Larry Johnson

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous... Read more

The Secret History of the War on Cancer

By: Devra Davis

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The war on cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease—but it has left untouched many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the global environment. Evidence of how these things affect our chances of getting cancer has been either overlooked or suppressed. And this has been no accident. The... Read more

The Fatal Strain

By: Alan Sipress

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When avian flu began spreading across Asia in the early 2000s, it reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century. During the outbreak's deadliest years, Alan Sipress chased the virus as it infiltrated remote jungle villages and teeming cities and saw its mysteries elude the world's top scientists. In The Fatal Strain, Sipress... Read more

Borneo Clinic's unique payment system

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An environmentally friendly health clinic on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo that offers patients living in extreme poverty access to affordable health care. Read more

Weekends at Bellevue

By: Julie Holland

Narrated by: Julie Holland

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office...In... Read more

The Magnificent Obsession

By: Anne Graham Lotz

Narrated by: Anne Graham Lotz

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If you or someone close to you is devoted to their church but still struggles to find meaning and passion in their faith; who loves their family, works hard, contributes to their community, but still feels life is somehow incomplete and hollow at the core; who is restless in spirit, with a nagging sense that there must be something more . .... Read more

Strength in What Remains

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains... Read more

Every Patient Tells A Story

By: Lisa Sanders

Narrated by: Lisa Sanders

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.

"The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as... Read more

50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage Insomnia

By: Wendy Green

Narrated by: Tess Mawle

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Good quality sleep is vital for well-being, yet one in ten adults in the UK experience sleep problems at some point in their lives, affecting mood and general health. Are you one of them?

• Discover how your night-time routine can aid restful sleep
• Make your bedroom conducive to sleep
• Choose beneficial foods and supplements Read more

The Doors of Perception

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it... Read more