SUMMARY BackgroundChronic constipation (CC) is a highly prevalent health problem, potentially associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRCancer).

CC patients had significantly higher prevalence and were at increased risk of developing new GI and non-GI comorbidities than age-, gender- and region-matched CC-free patients. Future research is warranted to better understand these associations.

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In Singapore, the law holds that one person may constitute an illegal assembly. This makes each person, individually and at all times, latently assembled if not actually so. But where exactly does the permissible, non-assembled one end and the unlawful, gathered one begin? How and when does one become more than one, that is, some? For here an excess of one is not many, but rather an indeterminate some. Of what does this someness consist? This essay draws on Foucault and Lacan’s discussion of the liar paradox and set theory’s concept of the “not-all” via Bateson and Kordela to make a few observations about the political subject’s constitution under illiberal democracy.

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