Forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton and his colleague Dr. Laurie Montgomery discover a mysterious cult involved in high-tech experimental medical procedures when they set out to discover the truth about what happened to Carlo Franconi, a mobster who body was stolen from the morgue and later turned up mutilated and minus its liver.

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A researcher boldly wades through commercialized health and fitness fads to bust pervasive myths—and reveal the true science—behind what it means to live a healthy life.
 
In this era of health-science research, rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy, the miracles achieved by genetic mapping....