The Saudi-based Arab News reported this week that authorities in Kuwait's ministry of health have proposed "genetic tests" aimed at detecting transsexuals who wish to enter and work in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, where the 2022 football World Cup is scheduled to be held.
But he is likely to be listened to with greater care on defence in the future after he was awarded an MBE in the weekend Birthday Honours for his work in detecting IEDs in Afghanistan.
But Jarvis, who was awarded an MBE in the weekend Birthday Honours list for his work in detecting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan, is finding it difficult to escape his earlier career.
Soldiers returning from operations have confirmed that this training has been highly effective in detecting IEDs and has undoubtedly helped to save lives in Afghanistan.
This includes detecting solar and cosmic radiation, interactions between magnetic fields and other forces which together make up what is called space weather.
The good news is that though the number of cases of some common cancers is still growing, the chances of detecting them in time and treating them successfully have continued to improve.
When it comes to detecting chemical-weapon attacks, the most common approach in use today is known as ion-mobility spectrometry.
His invention, called the Breath Collection Apparatus, has already been approved by America's medical regulator, the Food and Drug Administration, for detecting the early signs of heart-transplant rejection, and he believes it can also be used to detect breast cancer and tuberculosis.The trick is to get a big sample of breath, says Dr Phillips.
"It may not be the silver bullet, but at least we have a package that can work in conditions where other technologies struggle," he says.Although the technologies for detecting and mapping spilled oil in icy waters are rapidly improving, the options for cleaning it up remain limited.
A Finnish naval vessel dropped two small depth charges after detecting what is believed to be a Russian submarine in Finnish waters.
Having spent decades trying to detect the use of performance-enhancing drugs, officials may soon be confronted with the paradoxical problem of detecting their non-use.The reason for this paradox is the placebo effect: believing a treatment to be effective is sometimes enough to make it so.
