People obtain vitamin D mostly through exposure to sunlight. You can also acquire this fat-soluble vitamin by consuming foods containing vitamin D or taking dietary supplements. Vitamin D is essential for healthy and strong bones, healthy immune system and functioning of your brain, muscles, heart and lungs. A deficiency of vitamin D in women can affect their health and well-being.
Anthracimycin: New Antibiotic Kills Anthrax, MRSA. Scientists have discovered a marine microbe-derived antibiotic that has the ability to kill the deadly Anthrax bacterium Bacillus anthracis and other pathogens such as the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 1  Bacillus anthracis spores as viewed in scanning electron microscopy (Â© National Academy of Engineering)
As mentioned above, complications of MRSA can be serious and include sepsis, pneumonia, organ damage, tissue loss and scarring due to necessary surgery. Additionally, a serious complications of antibiotic treatment is intestinal infection by the anaerobic organism Clostridium difficile. This organism and the problems it causes merit another article (see reference 4); it, too, is treatable but it may markedly extend the recovery time for a MRSA-infected patient.