| Blob NewHeart
(For discussions of the latest topics, check out the Human Nature Fray.) Binge-drinking women are rupturing their bladders. British doctors report three cases and urge their colleagues to look out for more. Symptoms: "free pelvic fluid," "suprapubic pain," and "re-absorption of urine through the peritoneum." How it happens: 1) You overload your bladder with urine from booze. 2) The alcohol "dulls the senses," leaving you with "a reduced urge to void despite the increased bladder volume." 3) You fall down, causing your swollen bladder to burst. Old assumption: "Women, because of the short length of the urethra and the less pronounced sphincter mechanism, would have a tendency to leak rather than rupture." New view: Women are binge drinking like men, so they're bursting their bladders like men.
Overdose deaths soaring
More than two years ago, Michelle Gilmore was a completely different person. She lied, conned and stole to feed an addiction to drugs, she said. "It loved me. It was always there for me," she said, adding that in her lifetime she has used just about every kind of drug except heroin and ecstasy. .
Two die in healing priest's Olongapo vigil
The Canada-based priest has been performing faith healing in the Philippines and the United States. He began his "healing sessions" in the Philippines on January 11 at his Montemaria shrine in Batangas City. The Mass was officiated by Manila Archbishop Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales. The Catholic Church has since confirmed that Suarez's healing sessions are authentic. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, meanwhile, said it remains "watchful" of the priest's healing Masses and sessions. .
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