A woman who was able to 'smell' her husband's disease 12 years before it developed is helping scientists develop new ways to ...

Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Scotland, discovered she could detect Parkinson’s disease by smell after noticing a musky ...

Joy Milne’s life has changed immeasurably since the day she ambushed an eminent stem-cell biologist at a talk in Edinburgh, dumbfounding him by asking why smell wasn’t used to detect Parkinson ...

A decade into her marriage, Joy Milne, 72, noticed that her husband Les smelt different. He had begun to smell musky. She brought it up with him – on more than one occasion imploring him to wash ...

Joy Milne, 72, was able to sniff out Parkinson’s in her husband 12 years before he was diagnosed, because the way he smelled changed. She has been a major asset to scientists, as a ‘super ...

A woman smelling chemical. Credit: The Nose event at the Wellcome Trust / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Joy Milne, a 72-year-old retired nurse from Scotland, has the unique ability to smell ...

Joy Milne inherited a condition known as ‘hyperosmia’ from her grandmother and has put her incredible sense of smell to good use - Saesha Blue Ward ...

Joy Milne told Sky's The UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee about how her rare condition of hyperosmia, an incredibly sensitive sense of smell, helped her sniff out the disease in her late husband ...

Joy Milne is a "super smeller" with a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, which allowed her to detect her husband's Parkinson's disease years before any symptoms appeared, simply by noticing a change ...