Today's answer is East Timor. We hear a day in the life of an American doctor who runs a health clinic there.

The World's Jeb Sharp reports on a new study that concludes that the physical and psychological forms of torture leave victims with similar mental scars.

River blindness has robbed many people in the West African nation of Sierra Leone of their eye sight. The tragedy is that river blindness is easily treated...unless war and poverty prevent health officials from taking action. The World's Jessie Graham reports from Rotawa, Sierra Leone.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Charles Bourns, a poultry farmer in Gloucestershire, England and Chairman of the National Farmers Union Poultry Board, about the outbreak of bird flu at a turkey farm in England. Nearly 160,000 turkeys will be slaughtered by government vets at the infected farm.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Abul Hussam, winner of a million-dollar prize from America's National Academy of Engineering. Hussam, a chemistry professor at George Mason University, invented a water filter that removes arsenic from poisoned drinking water.

The 1918 flu pandemic killed 50-million people, including hundreds of thousands of Americans. But six US communities escaped the worst of the pandemic. Reporter Jennifer Schmidt tells their story.

For thousands of years, the people of China have been proud to practice their own style of medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine takes a holistic approach to health and relies on herbs and other natural remedies. But as China modernizes, its young are embracing Western medicine. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Beijing.

Pregnant women from mainland China have been streaming into Hong Kong, and not just for the medical facilities. Children born in Hong Kong get residency rights. The influx of new patients is putting pressure on Hong Kong's hospitals. Ken Bader speaks with the BBC's Hong Kong reporter Vaudine England.

Leprosy is now a curable infection and isolating the afflicted in leper colonies is fast becoming history. Correspondent Matthew Brunwasser takes us to Europe's last leper colony in Tichilesti, Romania, which houses 20 people with the disease.

Correspondent Irris Makler reports that drug researchers in Israel are turning to the Bible for clues to creating new medicines.