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In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only (AP)
Poll: One-third able to get swine flu vaccine (AP)
FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs (AP) AP - The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine (AP)
New gene therapy halts 2 boys' rare brain disease (AP)
Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study (AFP)
'All-natural' sex pill contains Viagra chemical: FDA (AFP)
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AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
AP - In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it.
AP - Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.
AP - Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
AP - French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.
AFP - Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.
AFP - The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could be dangerous.
