In this week's Scrubbing Up Nuala Close, lead cancer nurse, at Barts and The London NHS Trust warns that some patients are putting their lives at risk by needlessly neglecting their health and mistakenly refusing or delaying their treatment until after Ramadan.
The Bush administration even pushed to include the country of Georgia, which started a war with Russia four years ago, a mad policy which would needlesslyrisk confrontation with a nuclear-armed power.
For now, there is no alternative to BPA that has been so thoroughly tested, and using a less-tested substance could needlessly increase the potential health risk to consumers.