Psychoactive fungi

Psychedelic therapy is on its way to becoming a mainstream medical treatment in mental health care.

Egypt’s agriculture ministry has officially brought its policy on common grain fungus ergot into line with other government agencies, in a move traders hope will end long-running confusion over import requirements at the world’s biggest wheat buyer.

A young girl suffering from food poisoning after consuming toxic mushrooms was reportedly in a stable condition on Friday.

The 2-year-old from Volos, central Greece, has been at the Ippocrateio Hospital of Thessaloniki since Tuesday.

She is the seventh person to be poisoned by wild mushrooms in the past few weeks.

A monk on Mount Athos has become the second person in Greece since September to die from eating a poisonous mushroom.

The 63-year-old was taken to a hospital in Thessaloniki on Monday but could not be saved as he suffered massive kidney failure, according to doctors.

More than 40 people have been poisoned by wild mushrooms in Greece over the last month, one of whom has died, health authorities said on Wednesday.