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Janet Guttsman is bureau chief for Reuters in Canada, and has worked for the company in Germany, Russia and the United
States. When she's not running the Canadian news file, she enjoys long bicycling trips in Canada and beyond. In the
following story, she writes of the support she received online after a diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16), which has been linked to cervical cancer, can be detected in human breast milk collected during the early period after a woman delivers her baby, doctors from Finland report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who take part in clinical trials often do so out of a desire to advance scientific knowledge and to help others, a new international study demonstrates.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Key-hole surgery to treat endometriosis is associated with good short-term outcomes but has a high reoperation rate in the long run, research suggests. Hysterectomy, on the other hand, while "too radical," is associated with a low reoperation rate, the study team found, and preservation of the ovaries is a "viable option."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The investigation of a salmonella outbreak in the United States is shifting to the southern border to encompass produce imported from Mexico, CNN reported on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - An imbalance of a key brain chemical could cause crib death, researchers said on Thursday in what they called a chance discovery.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government proposed a 3 percent inflation increase in 2009 Medicare rates for outpatient services at about 4,000 U.S. hospitals, which will also impact medical imaging, diagnostic and other health care services.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies born by Cesarean section may have a moderately increased risk of developing asthma compared with those born naturally, Norwegian researchers report after investigating this link in a population-wide study.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As more Americans get sick while health officials look for the cause of a salmonella outbreak sweeping the country, consumer groups said on Thursday the Food and Drug Administration must put emergency rules in place to track the movement of produce.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA -- the essential omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in oily fish -- may help protect stroke patients from suffering a second stroke, a Japanese study shows.

The Agriculture Department is warning that the beef supplied by a Nebraska company may be responsible for at least 40 illnesses.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Normal cells in the blood that play a role in healing wounds may also be creating the right conditions for cancer cells to spread, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.