'I was heading for a breakdown, then books saved my life'

Birmingham author Kit de Waal says a chance conversation changed her life after she left home at 16.

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Why you should eat kiwi and pineapple skins

Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers, external.

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'My low Vitamin D levels hit me like a truck'

Saskia Reeves-Priestley didn't know she had a Vitamin D deficiency until she suddenly collapsed at work.

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I didn't know I was lacking in vitamin D until I collapsed at work

Doctors are finding vitamin D deficiency is increasingly widespread in the UK, especially in young people. But the symptoms are difficult to spot and can be missed.

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Heart attack patient, 83, had to drive four hours for hospital appointment

Charles Swift faced a 140-mile round trip to get to a hospital, but had to drive himself.

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Illuminated

Daniel Kraemer takes us inside an epileptic seizure.

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Inside Health

And the barriers queer couples can face in accessing fertility treatment.

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