A pilot was reportedly grounded after failing essential breathalyser tests before take-off. The member of staff at at All Nippon Airways (ANA) fell short of the mandatory health requirements, relating to their consumption of alcohol, prior to accompanying passengers on board. The behaviour of the pilot in particular is said to have come about on the route […]
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How my wife’s death inspired invention of cancer breathalyser
AN inventor whose breathalyser cancer detector scooped Britain’s top engineering award has told how his own wife’s fatal illness inspired him. Billy Boyle, a Cambridge University graduate, lost his wife Kate at 36 to colon cancer on Christmas Day 2014.
How my wife’s death inspired invention of cancer breathalyser
She died at home just moments before their twin sons, Isaac and Oscar, then aged five, woke to ask him if it was time to open their presents. He said: “Every day I wake up angry that my children don’t have a mother.” But as co-founder of Cambridgebased Owlstone Medical he diverted that anger into […]