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'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . a book so compelling that I couldn't turn away' – Bill Gates 'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James Patterson Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. The shocking true story of the breathtaking...

At some point 1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer.I was the same as you whenever I read that stat, I just always felt sorry for the other guy. Plot twist… you will occasionally be the other guy.In June 2025, after a completely random visit to the doctor, I was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia, which despite its fun sounding name, isn’t exactly a barrel of laughs. Sh** got real quite quickly.Up until then, I was a healthy, active, happy and successful man, heading into middle-age with carefree abandon. Life has a funny way of humbling you.As someone who’s lived their life in ...

She was once the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. Now Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos, stands accused of leading a massive fraud, and lying to investors, doctors, and patients about the capabilities of her technology. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison. But Elizabeth may be able to sway a jury with her charisma, highly unusual defense strategy and the fact that key evidence has gone missing. John Carreyrou broke the Theranos scandal. Now he’ll take you into the courtroom as he examines Silicon Valley’s fake it-til-you-make it ...

L'histoire hallucinante de la célèbre start-up Theranos dans le livre de l'année selon le Washington Post : "Bad Blood : Scandale Theranos, secrets et mensonges au cœur de la Silicon Valley". La start-up promettait une révolution dans la sphère médicale. Elizabeth Holmes, la fondatrice de Theranos, était tellement passionnée par la médecine préventive qu'elle avait laissé tomber ses études à Stanford pour créer une entreprise au service de l'humanité.

In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions. A year later their parents learned that their donor had the AIDS virus. After years of suffering, all three sisters died. It has been discovered that six more children have received infected blood from the same Red Cross donor. Bad Blood is the story of gross mismanagement and shocking neglect within the American Red Cross.