Stories by Susan Strongman

The pandemic has sparked a wave of serious eating disorders that are overwhelming treatment providers. How do you help a loved one in crisis when there's a waiting list everywhere you turn?

A group of Parnell residents may glamp on the site of a planned national Erebus memorial in an attempt to stop construction, which begins next week.

Some women are paying hundreds of dollars for the insertion of Mirena and Jaydess contraceptives when, under a multi-million government scheme, they should be getting the intra-uterine devices free…

Repeated calls for abortion services to be provided in South Auckland have been ignored for more than a decade.

The Associate Health Minister is watching DHBs "very closely" after a survey found variations in abortion services offered across NZ.

The controversial practice can cause harm and even death, research suggests. An expert says New Zealand could get its use rate to zero.

A man who was caught filming a woman undressing in a Kmart changing room in Auckland has been sentenced to community work.

The FBI is offering more than $15,000 for information about a New Zealand man who fled the United States after he was charged with sex trafficking and child exploitation material.

Confused by Auckland's Covid-19 clusters and sub-clusters? Here's everything you need to know.

There are now 45 cases of Covid-19 linked to an Auckland church whose members met during last month's lockdown.

How does it feel to watch family members become obsessed with Bill Gates, microchips and 5G - and is there anything you can do to help them?

A month after saying a dietary supplement could prevent Covid-19, Orewa psychic Jeanette Wilson now claims a bluetooth device she's selling can dose vitamins "vibrationally". Audio

Police and Medsafe have raided the property of a man who sells a bleach he claims can cure Covid-19, RNZ understands.

An oncologist is warning that promoting alternative cancer treatments can lead people to delay conventional therapy.

A woman who was convinced Te Kiri Gold would save her dying father is devastated it is still for sale, even after one of the owners - a doctor - was deregistered for testing it on patients. Susan…

Four Florida men have been charged for selling a bleach - also sold in NZ - as a Covid-19 cure. Susan Strongman reports.

Chemicals a New Zealand man is selling as a "miracle" Covid-19 cure generate toxic chlorine gas when combined, experts say. Video, Audio

A NZ website is advising people with symptoms of coronavirus to consume a bleach product sold by the Hauraki Plains-based "bishop" of a cult-like American organisation.

For some helpline workers, helping others in lockdown moves the focus away from their own isolation.

As the economic crisis hits, the 49-year-old charity has lost key corporate sponsors, while contacts to its counsellors are through the roof. Susan Strongman reports.

Māori and Pasifika populations are more vulnerable to Covid-19 and the effects of a recession. The combination could be devastating, reports Susan Strongman.

Some healthcare providers are offering phone consultations then couriering abortion medication to pregnant women's homes.

Jean Topp, 89, on the death of the magazine she started buying as a teenager and which later put her daughters, the Topp Twins, on the cover.

Ashley Bloomfield, Sarah Stuart-Black and Juliet Gerrard have all become household names, but who are they?

A mother vulnerable to the coronavirus after a kidney transplant also has a premature baby at risk.