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Health Business Blog hosts a new edition of Grand Rounds today, with tons of excellent articles in a wide range of health-related topics. Newbies: Do your homework at the Grand Rounds archives.

Our pal Nancy Mills of The Spirited Woman was on BlogTalkRadio the other day, and she mentioned ChronicBabe. Cool! And the radio show seems pretty great, too. (If you click to the site, a little music plays and then the show starts.)

Check out the latest collection of excellent disability writing now at the Disability Blog Carnival.

We're captivated by Project Sin Alma. This edgy project documents some of the wrongs encountered by ChronicBabes and Dudes in the US health care system. Check out the videos and consider participation!

From WebMD: New research posted today in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that your weight is highly influenced by your close friends, family, or spouse. So if they're chubby, you're probably chubby too—but if you lose weight, you might influence them to do the same. So the next time you plan to lose some weight, you're not just helping yourself...you're also helping people you love!

This one's for those Babes who look at "healthy-looking" people and get envious. You just never know what someone is privately facing, so you can never assume that their life is better than yours - or let that assumption kick-start a pity party. The Editrix keeps learning new things about old friends, like how Rosalind has an ostomy. What a tough Babe!

The FMS Community is giving away a copy of Sharon Ostalecki's Fibromyalgia: The Complete Guide From Medical Experts and Patients. (We'll be reviewing it in the next week or so.) Contest deadline is August 31, so send your entry today!

After almost two weeks of travel, the Editrix is on her way home today...which means more posts for you soon! Thanks for being patient while she's on the go...

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Grand Rounds blog carnival is fresh today at A Chronic Dose, the blog of one of our favorite writer Babes, Laurie Edwards. And ChronicBabe is featured! Enjoy some great medical and health writing. And if you're interested in joining the discussion, check out the schedule and submission guidelines.

Check out our Amazon shop and grab some goodies. We've hand-picked dozens of recommended items just for you! As long as you click through to Amazon through one of our links, everything you buy during that visit earns us a commission. We need your help to stay strong, Babes, so get shopping! Love, the Editrix.

WebMD reports today that two studies show Cimzia, still in the experimental phase, might offer Babes with Crohn's disease some lasting relief.

Wait no more! The world's first bionic hand is now on the market, according to MedGadget. Yay!

Michael Moore is celebrating the huge success of "Sicko" (it's now one of the top five all-time grossing documentaries) by holding a contest to send one viewer (and their guest) on an all-expenses-paid vacation to a city in a country with a national health care system. Find out how to win your free trip today!

So posts are a little light this week. Just wanted you Babes to know I'm thinking of you, and will have lots of goodies in the coming days!

It's a nice day for Grand Rounds, hosted at Vitum Medicinus. Get some great health and medical writing served fresh!

If you have an ostomy and blog about it, the Editrix wants to talk to you! She's on deadline, so chime in ASAP - you might be included in an upcoming magazine article she's working on. (Even if you're not an ostomy blogger but you know of one, please send us a link.)

Chow (excellent food blog) talks today about how eating gluten-free is getting easier - because it's more widely accepted. They offer some cool resources on eating the GF way. Thanks for the tip, Babe Jennifer!

MedGadget points us to the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, where you can view and vote on teeny tiny biological images (within human bodies and in the world all around us). Science as art. Gorgeous!

When you click through to Amazon.com from any of our links, we receive a portion of your purchase—so be sure to bookmark us and make that extra click each time you shop. Thanks!

Change of Shift is one of our favorite health care blogs, featuring the perspectives of nurses. The latest edition is live today at NursingJobs. Enjoy!

A tasty serving of Grand Rounds medical bloggy goodness is served up today at Aetiology. And ChronicBabe is included! Enjoy.

Why? Because it's between amputees and folks with disabilities, and it's the best breakdancing the Editrix has ever seen. Of course, her experience is somewhat limited. But trust us—you must take a few minutes to watch this video, and it's worth staying through the end. A little Friday inspiration!

ChronicBabe is part of a roundtable blog discussion on pain and independence at How to Cope with Pain. Happy Independence Day!

And you thought ChronicBabe might offer an escape from iPhone coverage! Nope. MedGadget reports on how Unbound Medicine has already developed a product to help doctors and nurses make the most of their iPhones. The Editrix is dreaming of the day when she can have one.

Great news for fibroBabes: the FDA just approved Lyrica for treatment of fibromyalgia. The announcement offers some insight, and some additional resources have been released for consumers.

ADAPT, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), and Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) are hoping to find out by asking a series of disability-related questions of all 2008 presidential candidates. A few have answered... check out their responses and keep track of all positions at one place. Handy!

First, you gotta love that blog name. Check out Grand Rounds at Over My Med Body! and enjoy a ton of great posts and snappy commentary.

Are you an adult with asthma, or a parent of a child with asthma? Share your insight with Emmi Solutions and you can help other folks in the same boat. Benefits include a warm fuzzy feeling for helping thousands of asthma patients, plus goodies for participation, depending on the project you're involved with. Learn more by contacting Emmi's Michelle Melin-Rogovin by email or phone: 312-568-4083.

Sicko's per-screen average during opening weekend made it #2, and gave it the 2nd largest opening weekend for a documentary ever. While it's currently playing on fewer than 500 screens, the big turnout last weekend means it will open on 300 more screens in coming days, making it easier to see. So get out and see it, Babes!