TUCSON, Arizona, July 21 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following statement on July 19, 2026: * * * Health Watch: Cyclospora Are you worried about food-borne illnesses, such as the latest, Cyclospora? This one is caused by a one-celled parasite. It causes watery diarrhea, often explosive, abdominal cramping, and other symptoms. It is harder to track than other food-borne illnesses, which begin within hours after a meal, because the incubation period may be   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 21 -- Carnegie Mellon University posted the following news: * * * CMU Study Finds New Forever Chemicals in Firefighters After Fires * Forever chemicals are so prevalent in consumer goods that they can be detected in nearly everyone. But firefighters are exposed to these complex chemical compounds, also called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), more frequently than the general population. There are thousands of different kinds of PFAS, and they're found  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Diffuse puffs of "missing" matter surround most galaxies * Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe's ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled with a cosmic conflict: There should be much more. Physicists have good estimates of how much matter was present in the early universe. Shortly after the Big Bang, roughly 83 percent of all matter in th  more