Brian Dakss is a longtime New York-based editor and writer for CBS News, at the Radio network and with CBSNews.com. He has written and edited for NBC News, Dow Jones and numerous radio stations and ...

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After selling medical books in Houston for 53 years, Majors Books will close next month. A local institution, the Texas Medical Center-area store has found it increasingly hard to compete with online ...

For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or ...

Tim Opler was searching an online jewelry auction for a birthday gift for his wife when he stumbled upon something more interesting. The New York investment banker spent the next few hours scanning ...