Broken: Part 1

Diabetes: The Silent Killer

Type 2 diabetes is New Zealand’s silent killer. More than 250,000 Kiwis live with it; a further 100,...

Outbreak: 2020

In 2020 the rapid spread of Covid-19 has caused global alarm. We are being asked to unite as we figh...

Being Me: Barney Looks Back

Barney lost his hands and legs from meningitis as a baby. At 25, he looks back on the life lessons ...

In My Mind: Midlife Crisis

Middle-aged males often top mental health statistics. Here, Gen Xers and former comedians Willy de W...

Dementia: A Love Letter

Mandy was only 42 when she received her diagnosis of early onset dementia, and Clare just 60. Their ...

Dementia: Te Ao Maori

Misdiagnosis of dementia among Maori is common. Look at the breakthrough research that aims to impro...

Living with Dementia: Neil

Seventy five-year-old Neil Timmo provides a rare and intimate insight into the world of someone main...

Living with Parkinson's: Clyde

When entrepreneur Clyde Campbell learned he had Parkinson's at 44, he started the Shake It Up founda...

Being Me: Hayley

17-year-old double amputee, Haley Birch is breaking records. Having survived meningococcal disease, ...

In Pot Pursuit: Part 2

California is a state where medicinal marijuana is legal, and dispensaries are plentiful. Meet peopl...

In Pot Pursuit: Part 1

Three characters with different medical reasons for wanting to use medicinal marijuana reveal the hu...

Being Me Freedom

Freedom was diagnosed with eye cancer at three months old, having both eyes removed by age five. Now...

Outbreak: Vaccines

Vaccinations are a topic that polarises parents. Meet one mother who's certain her baby would be ali...

Outbreak: Resistance

Antibiotics are a part of modern day life, but are we being prescribed too many, too often and to th...

Model in Milan

Quadrapligic model, Claire Freeman makes her debut on the international catwalk at Milan Fashion Wee...

Being Me: Claire

Claire Freeman's achieved a lot since a spinal injury that put her in a wheelchair at 17, a design d...

Being Us: Andrey and Eilish

Best friends Andrey and Eilish are the Yin to each other's Yang and would be lost without one anothe...

Jarrod's Second Life

Jarrod was like any other typical teenager, active and outgoing until a heart attack came out of the...

The Remarkable Mind of Dr. Jo Scott

Dr. Jo Scott had the world at her feet. Her son was one year old, and she was just two exams away fr...

Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury: Terry's Story

Terry was always the life of the party but at 56, everything turned upside-down when he was in a hor...

I Need To Breathe

Sisters Nikki and Kristie both have the deteriorating lung condition, Cystic Fibrosis. Nikki's life ...

Broken: Part 5

Terry, T.K and Jarrod’s lives were completely shattered after suffering a traumatic brain injury, bu...

Broken: Part 4

What is it like to start again? To learn to tie your shoelaces at 56, or to learn how to walk when y...

Broken: Part 3

In New Zealand 36,000 people suffer a traumatic brain injury every year. The most severe go to ABI ...

Broken: Part 2

Traumatic Brain Injury can happen to anyone. But it’s often a hidden disability. In this series we j...

Being Me: Robbie

Robbie Francis is 27, and doing her bit to change the world. She's bringing together disability, sus...

Being Me: Ripu

Ripu was 21, living in Sydney and finishing a Masters in Journalism when meningococcal septicaemia n...

The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 5

For years we've been told to eat less and move more and that we are in control of what we eat; but p...

The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 4

Type 2 Diabetes is now the leading cause of death in Samoa. It threatens to overwhelm the health sys...

The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 3

At 52, former gang leader turned youth worker Brian Kairau has one more dream left: riding a Harley.

The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 2

Brian Kairau can't feel his feet. Years of Type 2 Diabetes has damaged the small blood vessels leavi...

The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 1

Type 2 Diabetes is one of the most serious public health issues facing New Zealanders. What is it li...

My Perfect Family: Cystic Sisters

Kristy and Nikki are sisters and young mums who bring smiles to the faces of strangers by doing surp...

My Perfect Family: Creative Clan

Ranger Ashurst is eleven and needs regular injections to control his Chrone's disease, his eight yea...

My Search for Words

It took Jo Scott years to become a doctor but just seconds to tear it all away, at least for now. Lo...

Together Apart

Everyday thousands of New Zealanders face loosing their loved ones to Alzheimer's. This is the story...

Meningitis: An Insidious Disease

Barney Koneferenisi and Charlotte Cleverly-Bisman both survived the onslaught of meningitis but live...

Too Early? Born too soon?

Medical advances mean we can save pre-term babies from as early as 23 weeks gestation, but up to hal...

Truth About Teenagers

Pimples, peer pressure and parents, being a teenager can be tough. Thirteen teens join us in a frank...

Arthritis

Meet three inspirational young women pursuing their ambitions while living with arthritis - includin...

Surviving Thalidomide

The drug Thalidomide was hailed as a wonder drug for pregnant women; instead it caused the world's w...

Samuel's Baby

Rosa Marie Gibson is the first child of Jen and Samuel Gibson. Samuel has Brittle Bones disease or o...

Jess Teenager

Music, make-up and social media, Jess Coppock is a typical teenager, having contracted transverse my...

Sophie Reconstruction

A brave mum awaits high-tech facial reconstruction. The removal of an aggressive facial tumour chang...

Tae Kami Tonga

Through her tough battle with cancer Tae Kami has developed wisdom far beyond her years. Tae looks a...

Diabetes: Back from the Brink

Paul and Boxer could have died of type 2 diabetes years ago, but against the odds, they've transform...