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Fiction · 2010 · PG-13

Cure

by Robin Cook

A stem cell researcher's discovery threatens to upend the billion-dollar dialysis industry

"...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...." --inside front cover.

For14+GenreFictionLength384 pagesRead time~10 hours

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Violence

Some

Murder attempts; corporate violence

Language

Some

Moderate profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

Brief romantic content

Substance Use

Barely any

Moderate alcohol use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Corporate conspiracy to suppress kidney disease cure to protect dialysis profits

What this book is about

A Robin Cook medical thriller (2010) in which a Japanese researcher has discovered a remarkable stem cell treatment for kidney disease that could make dialysis obsolete. When he arrives in New York, the dialysis industry — which generates billions — takes notice. Pia Grazdani, now a medical resident, is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy. Features cutting-edge biomedical science.

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Murder to protect corporate profits

Medical ethics

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