Leanne Kenward, 22, arrived at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, East London, in December last year after suffering heavy bleeding. Nine weeks pregnant, she voiced her concerns to hospital staff that she was miscarrying. Despite this, she was put in a side room with her worried boyfriend Billy King, 25. There, the pair waited two hours to be seen by a nurse and another four by a doctor. By the time Miss Kenward, a student, had miscarried and lost two pints of blood. She said: 'I was treated like a dog. I told them I thought I was having a miscarriage and I thought that might speed things up but nothing happened.
'By the time I saw a doctor I'd lost about two pints of blood and the foetus was on the floor.' The hospital trust today apologised for the distress Ms Kenward suffered.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Erica Diaz was helping her eldest daughter make a Valentine's Day card when a piece of gold glitter ended up lodged in her left eye. The 33-year-old (pictured left before the ordeal) from North Lauderdale, Florida, first noticed something was wrong when she noticed painful irritation. The mother-of-two was given heavy-duty eye drops and made repeated visits to the emergency room - but nothing helped. She also underwent two failed cornea transplants, had painful biopsies, received injections in her eye and nearly died from sepsis during the next month. But eventually, doctors realized they had no choice but to remove her eye just one month later. Ms Diaz, who works as a singer and writer, now has a prosthetic right eye (pictured left) and lacks depth perception - but says she's grateful for the experience, as it's made her more confident and self-assured, and has brought her family closer together.

Jenika Tailor, from London, had no idea she was pregnant, having had regular periods and suffering no weight gain, cravings or back pain. The 19-year-old woke in agony last month and went to the toilet, assuming she had severe period pain or constipation. But when it got worse, she called for her mother (right), who rushed to her side and noticed she was bleeding. Baby Zara was born just seconds later, weighing 4lb 3oz. Miss Tailor was not using contraception but claims didn't think she would get pregnant. She is now speaking out to raise awareness of safe sex.

Christina Phillips, 25, from South Haven, Mississippi admits that she is still struggling with the emotional aspects of her weight loss on Wednesday night's episode of My 600lb Life: Where Are They Now? two years after documenting her journey on the TLC series in 2014. Over the course of two years Christina has gone from 708lbs (left) to 183lbs (right), but still feels like she is obese.

Student Alex Valentine, 21, from Dorset, could run 20 miles before he suffered from a stroke in May last year (right). It meant part of his skull had to be removed by doctors (left) to ease the swelling, leaving him with scarring (top middle). He spent months in hospital (bottom middle) and has had to relearn how to talk and walk again. But the Leeds University student is determined to run again one day and return to his degree in electronics to develop technology to help others with disabilities. 'To be honest, every morning of my life I am able to get up and wash without the assistance of a carer I will be truly thankful for,' he said.

Donna Gillie, 30, from Nova Scotia, Canada, weighed 230lb at her heaviest (left). She transformed her body through exercise and cutting down on her sweet 'trigger' foods. After losing 115lb she then unveiled her sculpted physique in two bikini competitions and now shows off her svelte figure in racy lingerie shoots (centre and right). She says her taut and trim appearance is entirely a result of shedding the excess pounds and getting fit when she was young.

Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, said people in Britain simply do not understand existing labels on food packets. She suggested changing it to show what exercise they would need to undertake to work of what they are eating.

Andy James, 32, from Lymm, Cheshire, went to hospital when he began to experience excruciating pain in his left eye, which he said felt like 'daggers stabbing into his brain'. There, he was diagnosed with ulcers on his cornea, the transparent layer over the front of the eye (left and top right). In order to take swabs from the lesions, doctors had to inject a needle into his eyeball, and hearing it 'pop' left him sick to his stomach. Doctors told Mr James if he had waited another 24 hours before having treatment he could have lost sight in that eye. He discovered wearing contact lenses for 14 hours a day, for weeks at a time was to blame for his ulcers. Now, he is sharing his story in a bid to warn others of the dangers of wearing contact lenses for too long. Pictured with fiancée Sam (bottom right) said: 'The experience was utterly horrible and something I never want to experience ever again.'

Jessica Morgan Price, from Porthcawl, south Wales, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in 2013. She immediately started chemotherapy (right) but caught MRSA and suffered raft of complications, causing her heart to stop three times. Miss Morgan Price spent a year in hospital recovering (bottom right). The mortgage adviser, 21, (bottom left) is now in recovery and raising money for charity 'Jessica's Dream'.

Pregnant fitness trainer Emily Breeze, 31, from Charlotte, North Carolina, lifted an astonishing 155 pounds 55 times during a competition. The athlete, who was 34 weeks pregnant at the time, pictured left lifting at the competition, right lifting in the gym which she shared at 35 weeks and inset posing in underwear at 27 weeks, can lift 325 pounds at full capacity

Natalie Garside, from Greater Manchester, was left in a wheelchair from a car accident when she was 16. She spent more than six months recovering in hospital before being discharged, but has never regained use of her legs (left). Doctors warned her she was unlikely to conceive but she has defied medics to have 'miracle' son, Monroe (pictured). Her waters broke at 37 weeks and she felt no pain during the natural delivery and recovered well in hospital (top right) 'When we brought Monroe home from hospital, I was ecstatic,' she said. 'It felt like something I should never have been able to experience.' Monroe, (left and right) is fit and healthy and recently celebrated his first birthday.

Junior doctors, including those on the picket line outside St Thomas' in London, main image and inset right, walked out across England for a 48 hour strike on non-emergency care at 8am in a continued dispute with the Government over a new contract. Jeremy Hunt, the subject of an effigy hung by the strikers in Leicester, inset left, announced in February he would impose the deal amid a continuing row over rates of pay for Saturday shifts. The British Medical Association plans an all-out strike with no emergency cover later this month - despite warnings it will put patients lives at risk. Vanessa Redgrave, right, joined protesters outside the Department of Health on Whitehall.

Christina Phillips, 25, from South Haven, Mississippi admits that she is still struggling with the emotional aspects of her weight loss on Wednesday night's episode of My 600lb Life: Where Are They Now? two years after documenting her journey on the TLC series in 2014. Over the course of two years Christina has gone from 708lbs (left) to 183lbs (right), but still feels like she is obese.

Sharon Cutts (pictured holding a grandchild and inset), from Boston in Lincolnshire, had sons Mason and Ryan and daughter Lily on March 21 with her boyfriend Stuart Reynolds, 40. The glamorous grandmother of four gave herself Botox on the maternity ward and sneaked out for hair extensions 'to look my best for when the babies were born'. The trained nurse said: 'I only injected a little bit, because really you shouldn't do it while you're pregnant. I gave myself a dose while I was staying in the maternity ward for 11 weeks'. The NHS will only perform IVF up to the age of 42, so the couple went to a private clinic before travelling to Cyprus for the procedure. Ms Cutts, a nurse who has four grown-up children from a previous relationship, said she does not care that the babies are younger than her grandchildren because 'it means they've got lots of playmates'.

Rheann Franklin, 8, Ainsley Peters, 6 and Rylie Hughey, 5, featured in a now-famous photo embracing each other while fighting cancer in 2014. Two years on they have reunited with Oklahoma photographers Lora Scantling and Christy Goodger for a new poignant image having won their respective health battles.

Analysis by FEMAIL found some supposedly healthy food bars - such as Detour, Lärabar, Vega and PowerBar, pictured - have considerable amounts of sugar. One bar, Detour, was found to have 30g sugar - the equivalent to five teaspoons. Its calorie count was so high that it would take 30 minutes running at six miles per hour to work off.

Two years ago, Frances Alagiah was in a meeting at work when she received a phone call that turned life upside down. Over the line came the voice of her husband of 30 years, the award-winning BBC journalist George Alagiah. The presenter of News At Six was calling from hospital. He had recently noticed some blood in his stools and had been referred for a colonoscopy - an examination of the bowel with a tiny camera.

Since 2010, the number of people in the UK falling ill with whooping cough, cholera and scurvy has been rising steadily. And tuberculosis, which killed off many Victorian heroines, novelists and poets, is making its way back up the disease rankings of today. 'I think there is a general sense in this country that infectious diseases that were rife in the past have been completely eradicated,' says John Oxford, emeritus professor of virology at Queen Mary, University of London. Becky Jones, inset right, is still recovering from whooping cough. Meanwhile Helen Brown, inset left, suffered TB.

It is believed the photographs were taken at Lister Hospital in Hertfordshire, last weekend. They have been posted on Facebook by a concerned member of the public who said she was 'disgusted' by the situation (inset). Today, a report by hospital watchdog inspectors found its A&E; department 'inadequate'. A spokesman for the North and East Hertfordshire NHS Trust said they could neither confirm nor deny the picture was taken there but said there were scenes like this 'across the country'.

Mandy Appleyard, 55, is told by sports psychologist and nutritionist Jo Gray that she is skinny fat. This means she has a high fat-to-muscle ratio - which is similar to Kate Moss, according to Jo. To gain muscle, Mandy attends an intensive three-day programme of healthy eating, tailored exercise, dietary supplements and stress relief.

Kunti Kumari, 25, who lives in a rural village in Chatra, in India's eastern state of Jharkhand, may be suffering from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic condition causing the bones to become weak. Since her teenage years when she was 4ft tall, her bones have begun to 'shrink' and curve (left and top right), eventually leaving her bedbound and helpless (bottom right, in her cot). She is now just 2ft tall and lies in bed all day (right, in her cot), reliant on her mother for all her needs. Members of her village have raised money so she can see doctors in bigger cities in India, who she hopes will be able to treat her condition, allowing her to walk again. Her mother Devi Tilakwa, 60, cannot stop weeping over her daughter's condition, which she says makes her look like a 'corpse'.

Ashley Fisher, 20, from Los Angeles, was diagnosed with mast cell activation disorder, a condition where cells in the body mistake harmless substances for infectious germs and attack. It meant she struggled to leave the house and could only do so wearing a mask (left) and was prone to suffering allergic reactions including swelling (top middle) and leaving her so drained she needed a wheelchair (bottom middle). She also regularly suffered from the life-threatening anaphylactic shock and struggled to take medication because of the allergies. She claims a holistic approach has made her better (right) and has gradually been able to introduce different foods back into her diet. She said: 'I was in state of fear and from the moment I woke up I would be thinking 'what if I die today?''

Amber Rose, 24, from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, was left mortified when she could no longer squeeze into a standard aeroplane seat, tipping the scales at 25 stone. When one stranger presumed she was pregnant, Amber ditched the takeaways and fatty foods and slimmed down to a size 10 - even paying £8,000 for a tummy tuck to remove her excess skin. With her new slender figure, Amber, who's 5ft 11, now weighs 12 stone and says she can't wait to flaunt off her new figure on the beach this year.

The video from the National Autistic Society asks viewers to step into the little boy's shoes as he becomes overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells around him - and to try and watch until the end. It makes for some uncomfortable viewing as he becomes distressed by a woman spraying perfume (top left), a man selling sparkly helium balloons (top right), the sound of coins clanking on the floor (bottom right) and a wall of giant TV screens (bottom left). YouTube user Atraxus Wraithe writing: 'From someone who has high-functioning autism and has to put up with sensory overload every single day, I want to say thank you.'

Everyone, at least once in a while, eats a depressing homemade salad, whether at their desk in work or from the confines of their own kitchen. But a new cafe, in Naygowa, Japan, hopes that people would find a plate filled with wilting rocket and tomato slightly less depressing if it looked like a beautiful cake. Food stylist Misuki Moriyasu came up with the idea for her 'salad cakes', which are basically salads disguised as brightly-coloured, beautiful cakes. Would you swap your lunch for one?

Jodie Wick, 27, from Cambridgeshire, will be 35 weeks pregnant (left) when she takes to the start line of the Race for Life event in June, but insists her baby bump will not hold her back. The mum-of-three - who is due to give birth on July 12 - runs four to five races a year but had decided to take a year off during her current pregnancy. But when cancer claimed her friend Nicky Brearley's (pictured left with Jodie, right) life last month, she sprung back into action and is back in training.

Doctors decided to bury Carlos Mariotti's left hand inside his abdomen and cover it with a flap of protective skin (right) after the machine production operator (left), from Orleans, Brazil, suffered a horrific work accident that ripped off all the skin on his hand.

Transplanting blood from young people to old; zapping the brain with electricity to boost memory; injecting the body with a rare condition that causes dwarfism: it all sounds like science fiction. In a fascinating two-part BBC documentary, Dr Chris Van Tulleken (left, and right as an 83-year-old man) and Angela Rippon (far right) investigate the cutting-edge science dubbed 'anti-ageing medicine' that aims to turn back the body clock and reverse the physical and mental 'symptoms' of growing old. While promising a fountain of youth, some may feel it is an obsession that's pushing the boundaries of ethics. In the show, with the help of a Hollywood make-up artist Dr Chris van Tulleken underwent a 46-year transformation (right) which was so stunning that not even his own father recognised him.

Dr Sally Norton gives her verdict on the pros and cons of the Mediterranean diet, cutting out fat, and sugar, as well as the Low GI diet, concluding the answer is not as simple as picking just one. She said: With so many different diets offering quick results and dramatic weight loss, it can be difficult to see the wood for the trees. The main thing to realise is research has shown time and again that 'quick fix' diets barely last a couple of weeks, and seldom keep the weight off long-term. Over the years I've spoken to numerous women have undertaken on one of the many available diets, and on almost every occasion, their plans have failed. Not because they don't want it enough, but just because crash diets don't work and lead to that inevitable rollercoaster of weight-loss and weight-gain that we hear so much about. So, what are the pros and cons of four popular approaches to weight loss, and what should you do?'