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Medical News Today has some great advice on how to dispose of your medications safely so they don't enter our drinking water.

The march editions of the Pain Blog Carnival and the Migraine Blog Carnival (with a focus on "maintaining friendships for those with migraines or headaches) are live. We (heart) blog carnivals!

MedGadget tells us that the Health Care Notification Network has launched. Supposedly this will help doctors keep better informed about drug recalls and medical emergencies, so urge your docs to sign up for notifications today!

Grand Rounds is fresh at Monash Medical Student, complete with interesting photos, music, and opinions from doctors, nurses and patients around the globe. Excellent reading, Babes!

Editrix Jenni is going to lie down on the couch. But to keep you entertained: fart facts!

Check out this cool anatomical street art. (Thanks, Kevin, MD and MedGadget.)

Kayla sent us a link to her recent article in the New York Times on having cystic fibrosis...and loving someone else who also has the disease. It's funny, touching, smarty, sassy...what can we say, we love this piece! It's a must-read for all ChronicBabes. Thanks, Kayla!

Check out the latest dose of the best of the medical blogosphere. Grand Rounds is fresh at Polite Dissent.

I love this piece by Gluten-Free Girl, in which she tells us how speaking freely about having celiac disease helps foster connections, educate people, change lives, and find an incredible gluten-free chocolate chip recipe. What's not to love?

Kerrie at The Daily Headache reminds us that today is the deadline to let representatives know that you want to increase NIH funding for migraine research. Take a moment to send a pre-written email and you've done your part, Babes.

We dig Kevin, MD, so we were psyched to see his op-ed in USA Today this morning on how the shortage of primary care is the real issue behind the problems with the U.S. health care system.

We've hit a definite milestone, and we're heading toward 2,000 Goodie Bag readers - fantastic! If you're not already getting our free e-newsletter (and the free eBook that comes with it, a $17 value exclusively for subscribers) then sign up for the Goodie Bag today.

ChronicPal Paula Kamen has been writing a series for a New York Times migraine blog, and today Editrix Jenni (plus ChronicPals Kerrie Smyres and Loolwa Khazoom) are featured. Check out the piece and let us know what you think.

Excellent Grand Rounds this week over at Canadian Medicine.

Nick Genes, creator of the blog carnival Grand Rounds, wrote a profile of Editrix Jenni Prokopy at Medscape recently in conjunction with our hosting of Grand Rounds. The focus: how Jenni's handled the recent weather-related challenges in her life, and where she's headed. We're thrilled to share it with you Babes.

So is Editrix Jenni, after spending a week with similar-minded folk. (It's a fun way to stay connected with friends locally and across the country. Or just down the hall in a convention center when you're too tired to walk that far.) Follow her on Twitter; her username: chronicbabe, 'natch.

Kerrie Smyres over at The Daily Headache writes informatively about trying biofeedback therapy in her quest to ease her headache. We love it when Babes are willing to try something new!

ChronicPal CancerBitch has signed a book deal with University of Iowa Press. Congrats! If you haven't checked out her site, get on over there.

Editrix Jenni has been in Austin for a few days at the SXSW Interactive show, and it's a huge energy suck...but worth it. There's so much to learn and do, and she'll be bringing back tons of great info on improving ChronicBabe.com. Thanks for your patience while she travels - tons of new posts when she's back!

Have condo, will write. Editrix Jenni is home at ChronicBabe HQ, if not totally unpacked. But unpacked enough to get some stuff done, like host Grand Rounds tomorrow. Thanks for all your good wishes and support during the past six months! To come soon: a photo montage of the disaster through reconstruction. Hurrah!

A Lifetime of Pain, and She Still Will Not Complain is the latest in Paula Kamen's series of columns for the New York Times headache/migraine fest. We dig our ChronicPal Paula, and her series of columns (three in the previous link) has been great so far. You don't have to have chronic daily headache (CDH) or migraine to appreciate the great messages she's spreading. Rock on, Babe!