Magic mushrooms may not be the answer to postpartum depression, new research from UC Davis suggests. 

Researchers have shown that pollen collected by honeybees contains Streptomyces bacteria that are endophytes, symbionts living inside plant tissue. These release antimicrobial compounds that inhibit common bacterial and fungal diseases of honeybees and crop plants. This discovery could be used to treat infections of honeybee colonies by introducing selected species of Streptomyces into the hive.

Patients weighing 450 pounds or more face barriers and discrimination when scheduling or attending doctor visits at subspecialty practices, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Of the 300 clinics surveyed in the study, 52% lacked basic standards of care and 41% declined to schedule an appointment. Otolaryngologists were the least likely to schedule a visit with the patient (only 48.3% scheduled visits, compared to 59% overall). 

Only 117 practices (39%) were fully accessible, the study found, with endocrinology practices being the most willing to schedule and most likely to meet basic standards of care.

An additional 16% of practices in the study that were willing to schedule the patient had a sub-standard plan of care that involved workarounds for accessibility limitations, such as telling the patient they could come to the clinic but would need to stand during the exam, or they would have to drape themselves with a sheet because they did not have gowns to fit them.

A poll of older adults looks for signs of addiction to ultraprocessed foods and drinks, and finds especially high rates among those in their 50s and early 60s who were children and teens during the 1980s when the nation's food environment changed.